 The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl drew near, As you have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer. He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent the knee, And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace Beneath the gallows-tree.  Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems - Pàgina 41per William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1849 - 282 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1844 - 826 pàgines
...the heaveus, And they were clear and blue, And in the liquid ether The eye of God shone through : Yet a black and murky battlement Lay resting on the hill,...have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer. feet ; and sarks provided for him with pearling about, above ten pund the elne. All these were provided... | |
 | 1844 - 834 pàgines
...the heavens, And they were clear and blue, And in the liquid ether The eye of God shone through : Yet a black and murky battlement Lay resting on the hill,...have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer. feet ; and sarks provided for him with pearling about, above ten pund the eine. All these were provided... | |
 | 1844 - 828 pàgines
...while with them, and then went up the ladder, in his red scarlet tassoci, in a very stately manner." He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent the knee ; And vuil'd his face for Christ's dear grace Beneath the gallows-tree. Then radiant and serene he rose,... | |
 | University magazine - 1849 - 836 pàgines
...battlement Lay resting on the hill, And thouyli the thunder slept within, AH else iras calm and still. " The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl drew...deer. He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone be bent the knee, And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace, Beneath the gallows-tree. Then radiant... | |
 | 1850 - 662 pàgines
...Covenanters is that of a band of gloomy fanatics, the enemies of civilisation and the human race : " The grim Geneva ministers, With anxious scowl drew...have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer." This is cruel irony ; the wit is serious and the style opaque. The scene is Montrose upon the scaffold... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1862 - 474 pàgines
...on such an occasion, or claim as one of " our suffering ancestors," — what time " The grim Geueva ministers With anxious scowl drew near, As you have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer." A more congenial illustration may be derived from Mas John Welsh's famous verhouse's troop and a few... | |
 | James Redpath - 1860 - 530 pàgines
...resting on the hill, As though the thunder slept within — All else was calm and still. 'The grim Genera ministers With anxious scowl drew near, 'As you have...would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent Ins knee, And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace, Beneath the gallows tree. Then radiant and serene... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1862 - 474 pàgines
...dare not mention on such an occasion, or claim as one of " our suffering ancestors," — what time " The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl drew...have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer." A more congenial illustration may be derived from Mas John Welsh's famous verhouse's troop and a few... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 562 pàgines
...battlement Lay resting on the hill, As though the thunder slept within — • All else was calm and still. The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl drew...the gallows-tree. Then radiant and serene he rose, For he had ta'en his latest look Of earth and sun and day. XVIII. A beam of light fell o'er him, Like... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pàgines
...battlement lay resting on the hill, As though the thunder slept within — all else was calm and still. The grim Geneva ministers with anxious scowl drew...around the dying deer. He would not deign them word or sign, but alone he bent the knee ; And veil'd his face for Christ's dear grace, beneath the gallows-tree.... | |
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