The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

CANTO VI.] THE LORD OF THE ISLES. 265
With him a hundred voices tell
Of prodigy and miracle,
" For the mute page had spoke.""Page! " said Fitz-Louis, "rather say,
An angel sent from realms of day,
To burst the English yoke.
I saw his plume and bonnet drop,
When hurrying from the mountain top;
A lovely brow, dark locks that wave,
To his bright eyes new lustre gave,
A step as light upon the green,
As if his pinions waved unseen!"-I' Spoke he with none?"-"With none-one
word
Burst when he saw the Island Lord,1
Returning from the battle-field.""What answer made the Chief? " —" He kneel'd,
Durst not look up, but mrutter'd low,
Some mingled sounds that none might know,2
And greeted him'twixt joy and fear,
As being of superior sphere."
XXXVII.
Even upon Bannock's bloody plain,
Heap'd then with thousands of the slain,
mighty fight of Bannockburn, to that which might be supposed to belong to a well-regulated tournament among
friendly rivals."-JEFFREY.]
1 [MS.-" Excepted to the Island Lord,
When turning," &c.]
2 [MS. —" Some mingled sounds of joy and woe."]