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

36 THE LORD OF THE ISLES. [CANTO 1,
Yet bears them on their way:
So chafes I the war-horse in his might,
That fieldward bears some valiant knight,2
Champs, till both bit and boss are white,
But, foaming, must obey.
On each gay deck they might behold
Lances of steel and crests of gold,
And hauberks with their burnish'd fold,
That shimmer'd fair and free;
And each proud galley, as she pass'd,
To the wild cadence of the blast
Gave wilder minstrelsy.
Full many a shrill triumphant note
Saline and Scallastle bade float
Their misty shores around;
And Morven's echoes answer'd well,
And Duart heard the distant swell
Come down the darksome Sound.
XVI.
So bore they on with mirth and pride,
And if that labouring bark they spied,'Twas with such idle eye
As nobles cast on lowly boor,
When, toiling in his task obscure,
They pass him careless by.3
1 L MS.-" So fumes," &c.]
2 [MS.-" That bears to fight some valiant knight."]
3 [MS.-" As the gay nobles give the boor,
When, toiling in his task obscure,
Their greatness passes by."]