...blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, 30 Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and...

...the field as snow, When streams are swoln and south winds blow, Their dark impenetrable wood, Eacli stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and...

...Flodden Field, were uppermost in his mind : "No thought was there of dastard flight, Linked in that serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." They are brave verses, although they seem to have no especial applicability to the subject. In the...

...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring : The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,— As fearlessly...

...«catu-r'd banda, Disorder')!, gain'd the Scottish lamls.— Day dawns on Flodden'i drearr side. 160 151 "be instant that he felL No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phiilaiix tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness...

...credibility, may be imputed to the Steward, who was heir-apparent to the crown. Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed the wing O'er their thin host and wounded king, Then did their loss the Scottish know, Their king,...

...Though charging knights like whirlwinds g<\ Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...where his comrade stood The instant that he fell." But all in vain, for before midnight — " Tweed's echoes heard the ceaseless plash, While many a broken...

...like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men plie the ghastly blow, The stubborn spearman still made good Ihe dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and...

...Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and...

...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and...