The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott ... Notes & life of the author.

CANcTO VL LAST MINSTREL. 81
With the Redeemer's name;
Above the prostrate pilgrim band
The mitred Abbot stretched his hand,
And blessed them as they kneeled;
With holy cross he signed them all,
And prayed they might be sage in hall,
And fortunate in field.
Then mass was sung, and prayers' were said,
And solemn requiem for the dead;
And bells tolled out their mighty peal,
For the departed spirit's weal;
And ever in the. office close
The hymn of intercession rose;
And far the echoing aisles prolong
The awful burthen of the song, —
DIES IRAs, DIES ILLA,
SOLVET 5AICLUM IN FAVILLA;
While the pealing organ rung;
Were it meet with sacred strain
To close my lay, so light and vain,
Thus the holy Fathers sung.
HYMlN FOR THE DEAD.
That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?
When, shrivelling like a parched scrolls
The flaming heavens together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dac.d
O! on that day, that wrathful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be THou the trembling sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away I
HUSHED is the harp-the Minstrel gone.
And did he wander forth alone?
Alone, in indigence and age,
To linger out his pilgrimage?
o —close beneath proud Newark's tower,
Arose the Minstrel'slowly bower;
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