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At the first onset, with the slain 

 Those valiant warriors strew the plain ; 

 But, hark ! the Allah Hu ! the foes 

 Rally, and hot the combat grows, 

 For here the Spaniards yield, and there 

 The Moors have slain the brave St. Clair. 

 Then, midst the thickest of his foes, 

 The precious casket Douglas throws 



" Pass on before us," hear him cry, 



" For I will follow thee, or die." 

 He rushes on but all in vain, 

 For thicker comes the arrowy rain ; 

 And now, by multitudes opprest, 

 With many a wound upon his breast, 

 "Where 'midst the slain the casket lies, 

 A noble death the Douglas dies. 



THE VAMPYRE. 1 



Compylt into Meeter "by James Clerk Maxwell [1845.] 



THAIR is a knichte rydis through the wood, 



And a douchty knichte is hee, 

 And sure hee is on a message sent, 



He rydis sae hastilie. 

 Hee passit the aik, and hee passit the birk, 



And hee passit monie a tre, 

 Bot plesant to him was the saugh sae slim, 



For beneath it hee did see 

 The boniest ladye that ever he saw, 



Scho was sae schyn and fair. 

 And there scho sat, beneath the saugh, 



Kaiming hir gowden hair. 

 And then the knichte " Oh ladye brichte, 



What chance hes broucht you here, 

 But say the word, and ye schall gang 



Back to your kindred dear." 



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