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The Lady of the Lake
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XXIII.
Allan, with wistful look the while,
Marked Roderick landing on the isle;
His master piteously he eyed,
Then gazed upon the Chieftain’s pride,
Then dashed with hasty hand away
From his dimmed eye the gathering spray;
And Douglas, as his hand he laid
On Malcolm’s shoulder, kindly said:
’Canst thou, young friend, no meaning spy
In my poor follower’s glistening eye?
I ’ll tell thee:—he recalls the day
When in my praise he led the lay
O’er the arched gate of Bothwell proud,
While many a minstrel answered loud,
When Percy’s Norman pennon, won
In bloody field, before me shone,
And twice ten knights, the least a name
As mighty as yon Chief may claim,
Gracing my pomp, behind me came.
Yet trust me, Malcolm, not so proud
Was I of all that marshalled crowd,
Though the waned crescent owned my might,
And in my train trooped lord and knight,
Though Blantyre hymned her holiest lays,
And Bothwell’s bards flung back my praise,
As when this old man’s silent tear,
And this poor maid’s affection dear,
A welcome give more kind and true
Than aught my better fortunes knew.
Forgive, my friend, a father’s boast,—
O, it out-beggars all I lost!’
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Chicago: Walter Scott, "23," The Lady of the Lake, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in The Lady of the Lake (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GP84TCVKVNRU2H2.
MLA: Scott, Walter. "23." The Lady of the Lake, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in The Lady of the Lake, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GP84TCVKVNRU2H2.
Harvard: Scott, W, '23' in The Lady of the Lake, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, The Lady of the Lake, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GP84TCVKVNRU2H2.
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