 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 psl.
...Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon...Advanced, forced back, now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 psl.
...Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon...Advanced, forced back, now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 psl.
...Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced—forced back — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose; As bends the bark's mast... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 268 psl.
...brother, the admiral. With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan l rent the sky ! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud...clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now fow, now high. The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging,... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1914 - 320 psl.
...local pronunciation is) "Huim.'' The "Haughty Humes" figure actively in history. "Marmion" tells how "The Border slogan rent the sky, A Home, a Gordon, was the cry." Floddeu has a prominent place in the Home annals.' The field and the castle ire visible from each other.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1896 - 360 psl.
...With wavering flight^, while farcer grew Around, the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky v , A Home'*! a Gordon* ' was the cry\; Loud' were the clanging blows v ; Advanced', — forced back\ — now low', — now high*, The pennon sunk' — and rose v ; As bends... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1897 - 592 psl.
...Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon...blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and... | |
 | 1897 - 248 psl.
...still Lord Marmion's falcon flew 135 With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; 140 The pennon sank and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds,... | |
 | Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society - 1897 - 214 psl.
...leader, whose designation came to be the rallying cry, "A Lorburn" — as for instance " A Douglas." The Border slogan rent the sky ; A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry. The stone (fig. 1) is not without interest as a memento of the old prison, the scene of many stirring... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 370 psl.
...Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanc'd, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As benda the bark's... | |
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The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows! 
