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" My wound is deep ; I fain would sleep ! Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush That grows on yonder lily lea. "
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The Ballads of Scotland, Volume 2

William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1859 - 416 pages
...night I dreamed a dreary dream, And I ken the day's thy ain ! " My wound is deep ; I fain would sleep ! Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush, That grows on yonder lily lea. " 0 bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blumin' brier ; Let never living mortal...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 pages
...recks the death of ane ? Last night I dreamed a dreary dream, My wound is deep ; I fain would sleep ! Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush That grows on yonder lily lea. O bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blumin' brier; Let never living mortal...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 105-106

1859 - 650 pages
...ni^lit I dreamed a dreary dream, And I ken the day's thy ain 1 My wonnd is deep; I fain would sleep! Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush That grows in yonder lily lea. 0 bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blumin' brier ; Let never living mortal...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...recks the death of ane ? Last night I dreamed a dreary dream, My wound is deep ; I fain would sleep ! Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush That grows on yonder lily lea. 0 bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blumin' brier; Let never living mortal...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 105

1859 - 578 pages
...night I dreamed a dreary dream, And I ken the day's thy ain 1 My wound is deep ; I fain would sleep ! Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush That grows on yonder lily lea. O bury me by the bracken bush, lieneath the blumin' brier ; Let never living mortal...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 59-60

Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 pages
...When struck down, he says to Montgo nieric, his nephew : — ' My wound is deep ; I fain would sleep : Take thou the vanguard of the three ; And bury me by the bracken bush, That grows on yonder lily lea.' So, when Percy, in turn, is struck down, and asks to whom he must yield, Moutgomerie...
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The History of Civilisation in Scotland, Volume 1

John Mackintosh - 1878 - 558 pages
...night I dreamed a dreary dream, And I ken the day's thy ain. My wound is deep, I fain would sleep ; Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush, That grows on yonder lily lea. O bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blumin' brier ; Let never living mortal...
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Scottish history: a reading book for junior classes, standard iv

Thomas Nelson (and sons, ltd.) - 1879 - 200 pages
...dreamed a dreary dream, And I ken the day's thine own. 20. "My wound is deep — I fain would sleep; Take thou the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the 'bracken bush That grows on yonder lily 'lea. 21. "0 bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blooming brier ; Let never living...
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The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend, Volume 5

1891 - 624 pages
...then, apparently — not in the midst .of the combat— that ; Earl Douglass to the Montgomery said. "Take thou the vanguard of the three : And bury me by the bracken bush That grows upon yon lilye lee." If we accept this verse as it stands, it undoubtedly refers to something that transpired before...
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The History of Civilisation in Scotland, Volume 1

John Mackintosh - 1892 - 488 pages
...dreamed a dreary dream, And I ken the day's thy ain. My wound is deep, I fain would sleep ; Take thon the vanguard of the three, And bury me by the bracken bush, That grows on yonder lily lea. O bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blumin' brier ; Let never living mortal...
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