But what they killed each other for, I could not well make out: They burned his dwelling to the ground, So with his wife and child he fled; And many a child and mother then But things like that, you know, must be, At They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies there Lay rotting in the sun: But things like that, you know, must be, Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, 66 And our good Prince Eugene.". Why 'twas a very wicked thing!" "Nay, nay, my little girl," quoth he, And everybody praised the Duke, "But what good came of it at last ?” 66 Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory." SOUTHEY. LOCHINVAR. Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the west! He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; So boldly he entered the Netherby Hall, 'Mong bride's men, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all! Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword— e! So stately his form, and so lovely her face, And the bride-maidens whispered "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Loch invar!" One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, Then they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near, So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow!" quoth young Lochinvar. There was mounting 'mong Græmes of the Netherby clan; Fosters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran ; There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lea, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar ? suppressed-put down of Yorkshire quadron-land or naval pinnacled-erected Scarborough-on the coast corrupting-crumbling Cranmer - archbishop of scalp-head sublimity-grandeur totter-tremble precipice-cliff Canterbury laity-the people avalanche-fall of snow crevice-crack Berwick-town on the R. Bristol-on the Avon Tweed Milford Haven-Pembroke sex Mendip Somersetshire Whitehall-London cannon determined-resolute bulwark-defence, ship Mexico Spanish Con- chime-clock quest in New World conflagration-fire |