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Abbey Aberdeen Aberfeldy arches bank beautiful Bonar Bridge Bridge Bruce building built burgh Caithness called Castle cathedral Cave centy chapel Clyde coach coast Crieff crosses distance district Duke Earl Edinburgh English entrance excursion ferry Firth Gairloch Glasgow Glen ground head height Highlands hills Hotel House Inverary Inverness Iona island James King Kirk lake land Loch Loch Awe Loch Earn Loch Goil Loch Hourn Loch Katrine Loch Lomond Loch Long Loch Maree Lomond Lord magnificent Messrs monument mountains Mull Oban opposite passing Perth picturesque Queen residence rises river road rocks ROUTE royal ruins runs scenery Scotland Scottish seat side situated Skye square stands Stat steamer Stirling stone Strath stream Street summit tains Tarbert Thurso tion tourist tower town transept traveller Tweed valley village walls whence window wooded
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Page 143 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa?
Page 78 - YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers. Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 25 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Page 13 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 197 - Or mosque of eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair ; For, from their shivered brows displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable glade, All twinkling with the dew-drop sheen, The briar-rose fell in streamers green, And creeping shrubs, of thousand dyes, Waved in the west-wind's summer sighs.
Page 275 - On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung.
Page 207 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
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Page 197 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle...