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THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
Canto J.
XIII.
Onward, amid the copse ’gan peep
A narrow inlet, still and deep,
Affording scarce such breadth of brim,1
As served the wild duck’s brood to swim.
Lost for a space, through thickets veering,
But broader when again appearing,
Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face
Could on the dark-blue mirror trace;
And farther as the Hunter stray’d,
Still broader sweep its channels made.
The shaggy mounds no longer stood,
Emerging from entangled wood,®
But, wave-encircl’d, seem’d to float,
Like castle girdled with its moat;
Yet broader floods extending still
Divide them from their parent hill,
Till each, retiring, claims to be
An islet in an inland sea.
XIY.
And now, to issue from the glen,
No pathway meets the wanderer’s ken,
Unless he climb, with footing nice,
A far projecting precipice.3
1 [MS.—“ Affording scarce such breadth of flood,
As served to float the wild-duck’s brood.”]
1 [MS.—“Emerging dry-shod from the wood."]
» Until the present road was made through the romantic pass
THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
Canto J.
XIII.
Onward, amid the copse ’gan peep
A narrow inlet, still and deep,
Affording scarce such breadth of brim,1
As served the wild duck’s brood to swim.
Lost for a space, through thickets veering,
But broader when again appearing,
Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face
Could on the dark-blue mirror trace;
And farther as the Hunter stray’d,
Still broader sweep its channels made.
The shaggy mounds no longer stood,
Emerging from entangled wood,®
But, wave-encircl’d, seem’d to float,
Like castle girdled with its moat;
Yet broader floods extending still
Divide them from their parent hill,
Till each, retiring, claims to be
An islet in an inland sea.
XIY.
And now, to issue from the glen,
No pathway meets the wanderer’s ken,
Unless he climb, with footing nice,
A far projecting precipice.3
1 [MS.—“ Affording scarce such breadth of flood,
As served to float the wild-duck’s brood.”]
1 [MS.—“Emerging dry-shod from the wood."]
» Until the present road was made through the romantic pass
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