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Firth from the pass in tamalt driven,
Like maf before the wind of heaven,

The archery accear:

For life for life, meir fight they ply-
And shriek, and sheus, and battle-ery,
And plaids and bennets waving high,
And fri-veris dashing to the sky,
Are maddening in the rear.

Onward they drive in dreadful race,
Pursuers and pursued;

Before has tile of figas and hase,
How shall it keep its meted place,
The spearmen's swith wied!
-Down, down."uried Mar. “your lances down!
Bear back both friend and fie!"
Like reeds before the tempest's frown,
That served grove of lances brown
At once lay levelled low:

And closely shonldering side to side,
The bristling ranks the caset bide.—
— We'll quell the savage mountaineer,
As their Tinchel* cows the game!
They come as feet as forest deer,
We'll drive them back as tame.”—

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"Bearing before them. in their course,
The relics of the archer force,

Like wave with crest of sparkling foam,
Right onward did Clan-Alpine come.
Above the tide, each broa i-sword bright
Was brandishing like beam of light,
Each targe was dark below;

And with the ocean's mighty swing,
When heaving to the tempest's wing,
They hurled them on the foe.

I heard the lance's shivering crash,
As when the whirlwind ren is the ash;
I heard the broad-sword's deadly clang,
As if an hundred anvils rang!

But Moray wheeled his rear-ward rank
Of horsemen on Clan-Alpine's flank,-
-My banner-man, advance!

I see,' he cried, "their column shake.-
Now, gallants! for your ladies' sake,
Upon them with the lance!"—

The horsemen dashed among the route,
As deer break through the broom;
Their steeds are stout, their swords are out,

They soon make lightsome room.

• A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space, and gradually narrowing, brought immense quantities of deer together, which usually made desperate efforts to break through the Tinchel

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