 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1882 - 780 pages
...broadsword pi i«t. Twas vain : — But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheer'd Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's...Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while lierccrgrew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky! A Home! a Gordon ! was the cry:... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 pages
...broadsword plied : Twas vain. — But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheered Scotland s fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's...Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while rieicer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky : A Home! a Gordon ! was the cry... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 184 pages
...broadsword plied, 'Twas vain: — But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheer'd Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's...With 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 182 pages
...right, With fickle smile, cheer'd Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard s lion fell ; Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With 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... | |
 | Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, And all the loved scenes that my infancy knew. 7. Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle veil. The true sound of any element is expressed more perfectly at the end than at the commencement... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 684 pages
...broadsword plied. Twos vain : — But Furt »nie, on the right, With fickle smile, ehecr'd Scotland's urn to masquera. ГА« Spanith Fathrr. CHAP, xxxvii. Ay, sir — our ancient crown, Marmiun's falcon flew With wavering- flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 pages
...the broadsword plied, 'Twas vain — but Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheer'd Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's...falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew 320 Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 582 pages
...Fortune, on the fight, Then fell that spotless banner white, right, With fickle smile, cheer'd Scotland's The Howard's lion fell; Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan runt the sky ! A Home 1 a Gordon ! was the cry: grew Loud... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...broadsword plied : 'Twas vain : — But fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheered Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, — The...Around the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky 1 A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 648 pages
...the broadsword plied ; 'Twas vain. But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile cheered Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's...With 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... | |
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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... 
