Walter Scott

Name: The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth
Author: Walter Scott

The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

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“The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth”, published in 1805, is a work by Walter Scott. It explores elements such as Surrey, strain and Cranstoun.

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ Of chiefs, who, guided through the gloom
By the pale death-lights of the tomb,
Ransacked the graves of warriors old,
Their faulchions wrenched from corpses' hold,
Waked the deaf tomb with war's alarms,
And bade the dead arise to arms! ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ And July's eve, with balmy breath,
Waved the blue-bells on Newark heath;
When throstles sung in Harehead-shaw,
And grain waved green on Carterhaugh,
And flourished, broad, Blackandro's oak,
The aged Harper's soul awoke!
Then would he sing achievements high,
And circumstance of Chivalry,
Till the rapt traveller would stay,
Forgetful of the closing day;
And noble youths, the strain to hear,
Forsook the hunting of the deer ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ Were it meet with sacred strain
To close my lay so light and vain,
Thus the holy fathers sung.
XXXII.
Hymn for the Dead.
That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?
When, shrivelling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead;
O! on that day, that wrathful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou the trembling sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away! ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ It was an English ladye bright,
The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,
And she would marry a Scottish knight,
For Love will still be lord of all!
Blithely they saw the rising sun,
When he shone fair on Carlisle wall,
But they were sad ere day was done,
Though Love was still the lord of all!
Her sire gave brooch and jewel fine,
Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,
Her brother gave but a flask of wine,
For ire that Love was lord of all!
For she had lands, both meadow and lea,
Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,
And he swore her death ere he would see
A Scottish knight the lord of all! ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentered all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ The murdered Surrey's blood, the tears of Geraldine!
XXI.
Both Scots, and Southern chiefs, prolong
Applauses of Fitztraver's song;
These hated Henry's name as death,
And those still held the ancient faith. ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ Then stay thee, Fair, in Ravensheuch:
Why cross the gloomy firth to-day?"—
—"'Tis not because Lord Lindesay's heir
To-night at Roslin leads the ball,
But that my Ladye-mother there
Sits lonely in her castle-hall. ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ”

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Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Canto Sixth (1805)

“ Nought of the bridal will I tell,
Which after in short space befel;
Nor how brave sons and daughters fair
Blessed Teviot's Flower, and Cranstoun's heir:
After such dreadful scene, 'twere vain
To wake the note of mirth again ”

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