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Sonnets - Sir Walter Scott

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The Bard of ancient lore! Like one forlorn,     He turned, enamoured, to the silent Past;     And searching down its mazes gray and vast,     As you might find the blossom by the thorn,     He found fair things in barren places cast     And brought them up into the light of morn.     Lo! Truth, resplendent, as a tropic dawn,     Shines always through his wondrous pictures! Hence     The many quick emotions which are born     Of an Imagination so intense!     The chargers hoofs come tearing up the sward     The claymores rattle in the restless sheath;     You close his page, and almost look abroad     For Highland glens and windy leagues of heath.

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