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

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

“ How could I name love's very name,
Nor wake my heart to notes of flame!
II.
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
III.
So thought Lord Cranstoun, as I ween,
While, pondering deep the tender scene,
He rode through Branksome's hawthorn green. ”

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

“ Lie senseless as the bloody clay,
He bade his page to stanch the wound,
And there beside the warrior stay,
And tend him in his doubtful state,
And lead him to Branksome castle-gate:
His noble mind was inly moved
For the kinsman of the maid he loved.
"This shalt thou do without delay:
No longer here myself may stay:
Unless the swifter I speed away,
Short shrift will be at my dying day." ”

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

“ With the Borderer's curdled gore;
A moment then the volume spread,
And one short spell therein he read.
It had much of glamour [1] might,
Could make a ladye seem a knight;
The cobwebs on a dungeon wall,
Seem tapestry in lordly hall;
A nut-shell seem a gilded barge,
A sheeling [2] seem a palace large,
And youth seem age, and age seem youth—
All was delusion, nought was truth. ”

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

“ Each with warlike tidings fraught;
Each from each the signal caught;
Each after each they glanced to sight,
As stars arise upon the night.
They gleamed on many a dusky tarn [9] ,
Haunted by the lonely earn [10] ;
On many a cairn's gray pyramid, [11]
Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid;
Till high Dunedin the blazes saw,
From Soltra and Dumpender Law;
And Lothian heard the Regent's order,
That all should bowne [12] them for the Border.
XXX.
The livelong night in Branksome rang
The ceaseless sound of steel ”

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

“ He never counted him a man,
Would strike below the knee;
His slackened bow was in his hand,
And the leash that was his blood-hound's band.
XVIII.
He would not do the fair child harm,
But held him with his powerful arm,
That he might neither fight nor flee ”

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

“ Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star. ”

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

“ No son to be his father's stay,
And guide him on the rugged way?—
"Aye! once he had—but he was dead!"—
Upon the harp he stooped his head,
And busied himself the strings withal,
To hide the tear that fain would fall.
In solemn measure, soft and slow,
Arose a father's notes of woe.
↑ Magical delusion. ↑ A shepherd's hut. ↑ Magic. ↑ Bandelier, belt for carrying ammunition. ↑ Hackbutteer, musketeer. ↑ Bale, beacon-faggot. ↑ Mount for Branksome was the gathering word of the Scotts. ↑ Need-fire, beacon. ↑ Tarn, a mountain lake. ↑ Earn, a Scottish eagle. ↑ Cairn, a pile of stones. ”

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

“ And issued forth his mandates loud—
"On Penchryst glows a bale [6] of fire,
And three are kindling on Priesthaughswire;
Ride out, ride out,
The foe to scout!
Mount, mount for Branksome [7] , every man! ”

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