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

THI mnRE-SING. 645
"Farewell, my father's ancient tow'rl
A long farewell," said he:
U The scene of pleasure, pomp, or pow'r,.
Thou never more shalt be.
" To Learmont's name no foot of earth
Shall here again belong,
And on thy hospitable hearth
The hare shall leave her young.
aAdieul Adieu!" again he cried,
All as he turn'd him roun'"Farewell to Leader's silver tidet
Farewell to Ercildounel"
The hart and hind approach'd the place,
As ling'ring yet he stood;
And there, befbre Lord Douglas' face,
With them he cross'd the flood.
Lord Douglas leap'd on his berry.browun steed
And spurr'd him the Leader o:er;
But, though he rode with lightning speed
He never saw them more.
Some said to hill, and spme'to gIen,.
Their wondrous course had been;But ne'er in haunts of living men
Agai was Thomas seen.
THE FIELKING.
"The blessings of the-evil Genii wghieh are curses, were
upon him." Eastern Tale.
[This ballad was written at the request of!Mr. Lewis, to
be inserted in his "Trales of Wonder." It is the third in a
series of four ballads, on the subject of Elementary Spirits
The story is, however, partly historical; for it is recorded,
that, during the struggles of the Latin kingdom of Jeru.
salem, a knight-templar, called Saint -Aban, deserted to
the Saracens, and defeated the Christians in many combats,
till he was finally routed and slain, in a anfiict with King.
Baldwin, under the wallsof Jerusalem.]
BOLD knights and fair dames, to my harp give an ear,
Of love, and of war, and of wonder to hear;