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

'The chimney arch projected wide;
Above, around it, and beside,
Were tools for housewives' hand:
Nor wanted, in that martial day,
The implements of Scottish fray,
The buckler, lance, and brand.
]Beneath its shade, the place of state,
On oaken settle Marinion sate,
And viewed around the blazing hearth,
His followers mix in noisy mirth
Whom with brown ale, in jolly tide,
From ancient vessels ranged aside,
Full actively their host supplied.
IV.Their's was the glee of martial breast,
And laughter their's at little jiest.;
And oft Lord Marmion deigned to aid,
And mingle in the mirth they made;
For though, with men of high degree,
The proudest of the proud was he,
Yet, trained in camps, he knew the. art
To win the soldier's hardy heart.
They love a captain to. obey,
Boisterous as. March, yet fresh as. May;
With open hand, and brow. as free,
Lover of wine, and minstrelsy;.
Ever the first to scale a tower,
As venturous in a lady's bower:Such buxom chief shall lead his host
From India's fires to. Zembla's frost.
V..
Resting upon hispilgrim staff',
Bight opposite the Palmer stood;
His thin dark visage seen but half,.
Half hidden by his hood.
Still fixed on Marmion was his look,
Which he, who ill such gaze could brook,
Strove by a frown to. quell;
But not for that, though mo're than. once
Full met their stern encountering glance,
The Palmer's visage fell.
VL
By fits less frequent from the crowd
Was heard the burst of laughter loude
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