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Canto VI.
THE BATTLE.
339
Than that beneath his rale he held
The bishopric of fair Dunkeld.
Beside him ancient Angus stood,
Doff’d Ids furr’d gown and sable hood;
O’er his huge form and visage pale,
He wore a cap and shirt of mail,
And lean’d his large and wrinkled hand
Upon the huge and sweeping brand
Which wont, of yore, in battle-fray,
His foeman’s limbs to shred away,
As wood-knife lops the sapling spray.
He seem’d as, from the tombs around
Rising at judgment-day,
Some giant Douglas may be found
In all his old array ;
So pale his face, so huge his limb,
So old his arms, his looks so grim.
XII.
Then at the altar Wilton kneels,
And Clare the spurs bound on his heels ;
THE BATTLE.
339
Than that beneath his rale he held
The bishopric of fair Dunkeld.
Beside him ancient Angus stood,
Doff’d Ids furr’d gown and sable hood;
O’er his huge form and visage pale,
He wore a cap and shirt of mail,
And lean’d his large and wrinkled hand
Upon the huge and sweeping brand
Which wont, of yore, in battle-fray,
His foeman’s limbs to shred away,
As wood-knife lops the sapling spray.
He seem’d as, from the tombs around
Rising at judgment-day,
Some giant Douglas may be found
In all his old array ;
So pale his face, so huge his limb,
So old his arms, his looks so grim.
XII.
Then at the altar Wilton kneels,
And Clare the spurs bound on his heels ;
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