The Poetical Works of Campbell and Falconer, with a Memoir of Each
by William Falconer (9781150040795)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LOCHIEL'S WARNING. Wizard -- Lochiel. Wizard. Lochikl, Lochiel beware of the day When the lowlands shall meet thee in battle array 1 For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scatter'd in fight. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown: Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down I Proiul Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain. But hark through the fast-flashing lightning of war, What steed to the desert flies frantic and far? 'Tis thine, oh Glenullin whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watch-fire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning: no rider is there; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair. Weep, Albin to death and captivity led Oh weep, but thy tears cannot number the dead: For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave, Culloden that reeks with the blood of the brave. LOCHIEL Go, preach to the coward, thou death-telling seer Or, if gory Culloden so dreadful appear, Draw, dotard, around thy old wavering sight This mantle, to cover the phantoms of fright. Wizard. Ha laugh'st thou, Lochiel, my vision to scorn ( Proud hird of the mountain, thy plume shall be Say, rush'd the bold eagle exultingly forth, torn From his home, in the dark rolling clouds of the north? Lo the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, hearing destruction abroad; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high Ah home let him speed, -- for the spoiler is nigh. Why flam...

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