 The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Side 61af Walter Scott - 1822Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 424 sider
...the sky ! A Home la Gordon I was the ery : Advaneed,—foreed baek,—now low, now high, The peunon sunk and rose; As bends the bark's mast in the gale,...sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view eould bear: " By Heaven, and all its saints! I swear I will not see it lost! Fitz-Eustaee, you... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 sider
...wavering flight, wlu'le fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky 1 A Home 1 a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows...now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bnrk's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, slirouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 sider
...like order is systematically employed with great effect : The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — -forced back, — now lew, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 sider
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows...sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : {i By Heaven and all its saints I swear, I will not see it lost ! Fitz-Eustace, you... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 sider
...mountaineer."] 8 [MS.— "Fell stainless Tunstall's banner white, Sir Edmund's lion fell."] A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows...sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : O " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear I will not see it lost ! Fitz-Eustace,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 sider
...Though there the dauntless mountaineer."] 3 [MS. — " Fell stainless Tunstall's banner white, A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows...sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear I will not see it lost ! Fitz-Eustace,... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 sider
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border Slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 sider
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : — ' By Heaven, and all its saints,... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 sider
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver 'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven and all its saints I swear,... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sider
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. The English shafts in vollies hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed... | |
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