Identifier: haroldspilgram00byro (find matches)
Title: Childe Harold's pilgrimage : a romaunt
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 Skelton, Percival
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Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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was received a welcome guest;Nor did he pass unmoved the gentle scene,For many a joy could he from Nights soft presence glean. LXXI. On the smooth shore the night-fires brightly blazed,The feast was done, the red wine circling fast,And he that unawares had there ygazedWith gaping wonderment had stared aghast;For ere nights midmost, stillest hour was past,The native revels of the troop began ;Each Palikar his sabre from him cast,And bounding hand in hand, man linkd to man,Yelling their uncouth dirge, long daunced the kirtled clan. LXXII. * Childe Harold at a little distance stoodAnd viewd, but not displeased, the revelrie,Nor hated harmless mirth, however rude :In sooth, it was no vulgar sight to seeTheir barbarous, yet their not indecent, glee;And, as the flames along their faces gleamd,Their gestures nimble, dark eyes flashing free,The long wild locks that to their girdles streamd,While thus in concert they this lay half sang, half screamd :— ANTO II. CHILDE HAKOLDS PILGRIMAGE 105
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Tambourgi ! Tambourgi! thy larum afarGives hope to the valiant, and promise of Avar ;All the sons of the mountains arise at the note,Chimariot, Illyrian, and dark Suliote ! 2. Oh.! who is more brave than a dark Suliote,In his snowy camese and his shaggy eapote ?To the wolf and the vulture he leaves his wild Hock,And descends to the plain like the stream from the rocp 106 CHILDE HAKOLDS PILGRIMAGE CANTO II. 3. Shall the sons of Chimari, who never forgiveThe fault of a friend, bid an enemy live ILet those guns so unerring such vengeance forego IWhat mark is so fair as the breast of a foe 1 4. Macedonia sends forth her invincible race ;For a time they abandon the cave and the chase :But those scarfs of blood-red shall be redder, beforeThe sabre is sheathed and the battle is oer. 5. Then the pirates of Parga that dwell by the waves,And teach the pale Franks what it is to be slaves,Shall leave on the beach the long galley and oar,And track to his covert the captive on shore. 6. I ask not t

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