"Albyn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the "Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,—and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various
... ghastly forms through mist and shower Gleam on the gifted ken; And then the affrighted prophet's ear Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear Presaging death and ruin near Among the sons of men; - Apart from Albyn's war-array, 'Twas then grey Allan sleepless lay; Grey Allan, who, for many a day, Had followed stout and stern, Where, through battle's rout and reel, Storm of shot and edge of steel, Led the grandson ...
— Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott • Sir Walter Scott
... "Yet Albyn! yet the praise be thine, Thy scenes with story to combine; Thou bid'st him who by Roslin strays List to the tale of other days. Midst Cartlane crags thou showest the cave, The refuge of thy champion brave; Giving each rock a storied tale, Pouring a lay through every dale; Knitting, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various |
