...of the river. There are many fine pictures in that old castle. Queen Anne was a weak hut good woman. The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old. Blackbirds are the noisiest of all our feathered songsters. There were many brave soldiers wounded....

...itself in his prosaic temperament. His most celebrated lines show the quality of his compo-sition:— The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...sole remaining joy. Was carried by an orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey: — If Iliou would'st view fair Melrose aright,...

...troubadour, and to make of him in the lesser households not a permanence but an occasional visitor—"the way was long, the wind was cold, the minstrel was infirm and old"! Enough, in any case, to make the court a potential source 1 EG Browne, Arabian Medicine (Cambridge,...

...The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresies gray, Seemed to have known a belter day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried...all the bards was he. Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their dale was fled, His tuneful brethren alt were dead ; And he, neglected and...

...style. . . each element in a description has its own emotional impact independently of other elements. 'The way was long, the wind was cold, the minstrel was infirm and old' is poetic style; 'The way was long and the wind was cold, while the minstrel was elderly and infirm'...

...your dear longed-for visit. t Parodying the stari of Sir Walter Scott's The L^y of the Lait Minitrel: 'The way was long, the wind was cold. / The Minstrel was infirm and old; / . . .The harp, his sole remaining joy, / Was carried by an orphan bov' 2 Four Galswortby poems appeared...

...Lay of the Last .Minstrel: 'The way was long, the wind was cold, / The Minstrel was infirm and old; / ...The harp, his sole remaining joy, / Was carried by an orphan boy'. 2 Four Galsworthy poems appeared in the June number (2, 411-13); the second is 'Rose and Yew'. ' Galsworthy...

...revolution and is now, in 1690, the last of his breed, seeks the patronage of Anne, duchess of Buccleuch. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed,...

...his kind, accompanied only by an orphan boy, he regrets the past and longs for the quiet of death: The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, welladay! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppress'd,...

...for himself: in the poem's introduction the eponymous minstrel, a thinly disguised figure for Scott ("The last of all the bards was he, / Who sung of Border chivalry") is patronized by Anne Scott, first Duchess of Buccleuch and ancestor of the Buccleuchs who would be...