...solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That...flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? ' Xature is mute, motionless and gloomy in expectation of the coming strife. How finely, too, is...

...solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warriors' measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bonne for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...

...it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground 134 Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the...spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake...

...solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That...flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams i — I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war,...

...echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glanc* That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lane* The sun's retiring heams ? I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave...

...solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That...of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! 6 To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...

...solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That...spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake...

...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! * * * * * No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe and drum ; Save heavy tread, and...

...solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance I The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wavo o'«r...

...solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,...