Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads Jacobite Ballads, &c. &c. By George W. Thornbury ... with illustrations by H. S. Marks |
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THREE YEARS. |
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THREE YEARS.
A lordly castle on a moor,
Its hundred windows, row by row,
With blood-red sunset all of a glow;
(No king a statelier house could show,)
With its fifty banners all of a blow.
Its hundred windows, row by row,
With blood-red sunset all of a glow;
(No king a statelier house could show,)
With its fifty banners all of a blow.
A hundred turrets spouting fire,
Four black walls, gaping, split and rent;
A crimson cloud that like a tent
Wavers above it. Hark! there went
A shriek as from a martyr sent!
Four black walls, gaping, split and rent;
A crimson cloud that like a tent
Wavers above it. Hark! there went
A shriek as from a martyr sent!
A ruin on a thirsty waste—
A tottering wall, a winding stair;
A parapet that high in air
Hangs, grey, by lightning struck, and bare,
Though still the starling nestles there.
A tottering wall, a winding stair;
A parapet that high in air
Hangs, grey, by lightning struck, and bare,
Though still the starling nestles there.
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