Poetry > Lady of the lake

INTRODUCTION.
TER the success of “Marmion,” T
felt inclined to exclaim with
Ulysses in the “ Odyssey ”—
“ One venturous game my hand has won
to-day—
Another, gallants, yet remains to play.”
The ancient manners, the hahits and
customs of the aboriginal race by whom the Highlands
of Scotland were inhabited, had always appeared to
me peculiarly adapted to poetry. The change in
their manners, too, had taken place almost within
Outos /Ai' Srj &ed\os adaros iK
rer^KecTTai.
NDp avre vkotov aWou.
Odys. x- 1- 5.
my own time, or at least I had learned many par¬
ticulars concerning the ancient state of the High¬
lands from the old men of the last generation. I