 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan rent the sky : A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By heaven, and all its saints ! I swear, I will not see it... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...yell. The Border slogan rent the sky : A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows j Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high,...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By heaven, and all its saints ! I swear, I will not see it... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...sky: A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced,—forced back,—now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose : As bends...the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, I will not see it lost! Fitz-Eustace, you with Lady Clare May bid your beads, and patter prayer, It... | |
 | George Home - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1837 - 364 pages
...my classification. CHAPTER II. ' The Border slogan rent the sky, A Home — a Gordon, was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced — forced...— now low — now high, The pennon sunk and rose." IN order to get rid of his offspring, the Commodore abandoned his hut in C — m Moor, and bundled... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home I a Gordon I was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered ' mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : — " By heaven, and all its saints, I swear, I will not see... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry; Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced, — forced...rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid me foes. No longer Blount the sight could bear: — « By heaven, and all its saints, I swear, I will... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 92 pages
...sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the ery ; Lond were the elanging blows ; Advaneed, — foreed haek, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the hark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, sbronds, and sail. .t'i I will not sec it lost ! Fitz-Eustaee,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, forced back,...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd mid the foes. .No longer Blount the view could bear: . " By Heaven and all its saints ! I swear... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : O "By Heaven, and all its saints! I swear... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : ter ; A» bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid... | |
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The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,... 
