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Marmion

Marmion

by Sir Walter Scott

First published 1800 · 281 pages · about 5 hours to read

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  • “DAY set on Norham’s castled steep, 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 sweep, In yellow lustre shone.”
    Chapter I
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  • “The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed forms of giant height: Their armour, as it caught the rays, Flashed back again the western blaze, In lines of dazzling light.”
    Chapter I
  • “Scantly Lord Marmion’s ear could brook The harper’s barbarous lay; Yet much he praised the pains he took, And well those pains did pay: For lady’s suit and minstrel’s strain, By knight should ne’er be heard in vain.”
    Chapter XIII
  • “Ah, happy boys! such feelings pure, They will not, cannot, long endure; Condemned to stem the world’s rude tide, You may not linger by the side; For Fate shall thrust you from the shore, And Passion ply the sail and oar.”
    Chapter XXXI
  • “Now, men of death, work forth your will, For I can suffer, and be still; And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.”
    Chapter XXX

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