...said, and stood awaiting for the sign, And heard, above the hoarse, bough-bending wind, The hill- wolf howling on the neighbouring height, And bittern booming...slope, In gleaming whirls swept down the dim ravine." We feel loath to end these quotations, for our ardent desire is to interest the reader in Canadian...

...the sign, And heard, above the hoarse, bough-bending wind, The hill-wolf howling on the neighboring height, And bittern booming in the pool below. Some...slope, In gleaming whirls swept down the dim ravine." The finest portion of the poem is the description of that transition of feeling, through which the...

...bittern booming in the pool below. Some drops of rain fell from the passing cloud That sudden hides tho wanly shining moon, And from the scabbard instant...rock-struck clang, From side to side, and slope to founding slopo, In gleaming whirls swept down the dim ravine." The finest portion of tho poem is tho...

...instant dropped his sword, And, with long, living leaps, and rock-struck clang, From side to side, aud slope to sounding slope, In gleaming whirls swept down the dim ravine." The finest portion of the poem is the description of that transition of feeling, through which the...

...the sign, And heard, above the hoarse, bou^h-bcnding wind, The hill wolf howling on the ncighlwiring height, And bittern booming in the pool below. Some...slope, In gleaming whirls swept down the dim ravine." The finest portion of the poem is the description of that transition of feeling, through which the...