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SIR WALTER SCOTT
Up the long path of Fame
See Scott advance, pure clarion of the band,
Supremest bearer of his Country's name,
Rekindling the deserted Border-land
With sudden gleam of spears and hurtling swords
Glinting behind bare crags or tufts of fern:
Gay pennons streaming up the winding glen;
Sacked towers aglow with lurid cores of flame,
Or broken armies trampling through the fords,
Shedding a trail of writhing steeds and men
From stricken fields—Flodden or Bannockburn.
Above the placid breasts of mountain lakes
The pibroch swells; lights kindle on the shore;
The Fiery Cross its blinding pathway breaks,
And the wild Clansmen toss the torch of war.
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