Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WALTER SCOTT LOCHINVAR 0, Young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border0 his steed was the best; And, save his good broadsword, he weapons had none, He rode all unarm’d, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, 5 There never was knight like the young Lochinvar. He staid not for brake, and he stopp’d not for stone, He swam the Esk river0 where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: 10 For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he enter’d the Netherby Hall, Among bride’s-men, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all: Then spoke the bride’s father, his hand on his sword, is (For the poor craven bridgroom said never a word,)
O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar? ?
I long woo’d your daughter, my suit you denied; ? Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like the tide ? 20 And now I am come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar. The bride kiss’d the goblet: the knight took it up, 25 He quaff’d off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She look’d down to blush, and she look’d up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, ?
Now tread we a measure!
said young Lochinvar. so So stately his form, and so lovely her face, There never a hall such a galliard0 did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whisper’d,…