...the burden was divided. CHAPTER XXVII. SIGN! OP A GATHERING STORM.— MUSTER OF THE BACKWOODSMEN'. In arms the huts and hamlets rise, From winding glen,...upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Lady of the Lake. IN gathering up the ends of our story, as we draw towards a conclusion, we are forced,...

...by the rapid passage over hill and dale of the cross of fire sending far around its beacon light. " Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and...from upland brown They poured each hardy tenant down. The fisherman forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand, With changed cheer, the mower...

...mountain race ; But danger, death, and warrior deed, Are in thy course — Speed, Malise, speed ! XIV. Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and...rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he nam'd the...

...death, and warrior deed. Are in thy course — Speed, Malise, speed ! XIV. Fast as the fatal symhol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland hrown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace ; He shewed the sign,...

...mountain race ; But danger, death, and warrior deed, Are in thy course — speed, Malise, speed ! XIV. Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and...rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; Ho show'd the sign, he named the...

...danger, death, and warrior deed An in thy course — Speed, Malise, speed I XIT. Fast as the fatal symhol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland hrown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor satcked the messenger hi.- pace ; He showed the sign,...

...recall it. It has gone like the Fiery Cross described in the ' Lady of the Lake : ' — " Fast as the symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise : From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down ; Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the...

...the mountain race ; But danger, death, and warrior deed Are in thy course — Speed, Malise, speed ! Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and...the place, And, pressing forward like the wind, Left clamor and surprise behind. The fisherman forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand,...

...from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; Ho show'd the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward like the wind, Left clamor and surprise behind.* The fisherman forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand...

...from npland brown, They ponr'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward like the wind, Left clamonr and snrprise behind.i The fisherman forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand,...