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

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There's time to -pitch both toil and net,
Before their path be homeward set"
A hurried and a whisper'd speech
Did Bertram's will to -Denzil teach;
V~ho,turning to the'robber band,
Bade four, the bravest, take the brand,
CANTO FOURTH.
WHEN Denmark's raven soar'd on highs
Triumphant through Northumbrian sky,'fill, hov'ring near, her fatal croak
Bade Reged's Britons dread the yoke,
And the broad shadow of her wing
Blacken'd each cataract and spring,
Where Tees in tumult leaves his source,
Thund'ring o'er Caldron and High -Force;
Beneath the shade the Northmen came,
Fix'd on each vale a Runic name,
Rear'd high their altars' rugged stone,
And gave their Gods the land they won.
Then, Balder, onebleak garth was thine,
And one sweet brooklet's silver line,
And Woden's Croft did title gain
Form the stern Father of the Slain;
But to the Monarch of the Mace,
That held in fight the foremost place,
To Odin's son, and Sifia's spouse,
Near Stratforth high they paid their vowg,
Remember'd Thor's victorious fame,
And gave the dell the Thund'rer's name.
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Yet Scald or Kemper err'd, I ween,
Who gave that soft and quiet scene,
With all its varied light and shade,
And every little sunny glade,
And the blithe brook that strolls along
Its pebbled bed with summer song,
To the grim God of blood and scar,
The grisly King of Northern War.
O, better were its banks assign'd
To spirits of a gentler killdl