 Soon we heard a challenge-trumpet Sounding in the Pass below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe ; Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the hounds in summer, When they scent the stately...  Blackwood's Magazine - Sida 5381843Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1849 - 300 sidor
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe: Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Then... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1850 - 144 sidor
...and spirited lays of the Scottish cavaliers, by Professor Aytoun. " Down we crouched amid the bracken Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 sidor
...helow, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
 | 1853 - 528 sidor
...the voices of the foe: Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, ranting like the hounds in summer, When they scent the stately...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
 | 1853 - 1074 sidor
...we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the hounds in summor, When they scent the stately deer. From the dark defile...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 sidor
...horses, And the voices of the foe : THE BATTLE OF KILLIECBANKIE. (59 Down we crouched atnid the hracken,6 Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...hounds in summer, When they scent the stately deer. Prom the dark defile emerging, Next we saw the squadrons come, Leslie's foot and Leven's troopers Marching... | |
 | 1857 - 514 sidor
...the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, ranting like the hounds in summer, When they scent the stately...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches. O'er the broken ground and heath. Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 sidor
...horses, And the voices of the foe ; Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks draw near, Panting like the hounds in summer. When they...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Judge... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 sidor
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...troopers Marching to the tuck of drum ; Through the scattered wood of birches, O'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly, Till... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 sidor
...below, And the distant tramp of horses, and the voices of the foe : Down we crouched amid the bracken, till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the...foot, and Leven's troopers marching to the tuck of Through the scattered wood of birches, o'er the broken ground and heath, Wound the long battalion slowly,... | |
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