...Norham lives and glows before us, as we open the magic pages of Marmion ! Day set on Norham's castlod steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And...donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, Tho flanking walls that round it In yellow lustre shone. It is thus that Scott has done good service...

...Albion's eider SHE CASTLB^ |>AY set on Norham's- castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deeps And Cheviot's mountains lone: The battled towers,...loop-hole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep^ L Seemed forms of giant height) Their armour, as it caught the rays, Flashed...

...steep bank that overhangs the Tweed. Here is laid the opening scene of Sir Walter Scott's Marmion. " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river broad and deep." Not far from this spot is the place where Edward I met the nobility of Scotland to settle the dispute...

...Meg, now in Edinburgh Castle. In 1603 Bishop Matthew devised it to the crown. TWIZEL CASTLE. 379 " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...mountains lone, The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole-grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sleep, In yellow lustre shone."...

...Edinburgh Castle. In 1603 Bishop Matthew devised it to the crown. " Day set on Norham's castled steq>, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...mountains lone, The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole-grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sleep, In yellow lustre shone."...

...down their scythes, and are eating their dinners. 8. The — we honor is the people's choice. 9, ' Day set on Norham's castled steep,. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains — !'• 10. ' Fear not now the death-bed — , Pangs that torture, pains that tire, Bed-rid age with...

...of mail, or padded velvet, and end with bag-wigs and shoebuckles. But here, at Manasia, "The battle towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep. In yellow lustre shone;'* and we were carried back to the year of our Lord...

...Hear then, attentive to my lay, A knightly tale of Albion's elder day. CANTO FIRST. THE CASTLE. I. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. * The New Forest in Hampshire, anciently so called,...

...what renewed brilliancy do those chivalric lines bring back the long-past scenes of other days I ' Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round them sweep, In yellow lustre shone.' And imagination can almost bring to the ear the...

...upon victory than upon battle." SCOTT. THE FIRST TWO STANZAS OF MARMION \ A TALE Off FLODDEN FIELD. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair...loop-hole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart...