The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated) by Sir Walter Scott

Author:Sir Walter Scott [SCOTT, SIR WALTER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parts Edition 43 of 62 by Delphi Classics
Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
Published: 2017-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

“Or are you sportive? — bid the morn of youth

Rise to new light, and beam afresh the days

Of innocence, simplicity, and truth;

To cares estranged, and manhood’s thorny ways.

What transport, to retrace our boyish plays,

Our easy bliss, when each thing joy supplied;

The woods, the mountains, and the warbling maze

Of the wild books!”

The Critical Review says of the following stanza (xxxiv): “Such a strange and romantic dream as may be naturally expected to flow from the extraordinary events of the day. It might, perhaps, be quoted as one of Mr. Scott’s most successful efforts in descriptive poetry. Some few lines of it are indeed unrivalled for delicacy and melancholy tenderness.”

704. Grisly. Grim, horrible; an obsolete word, much used in old poetry. Cf. Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 30: “her darke griesly looke;” Shakespeare, 1 Hen. VI. i. 4. 47: “My grisly countenance made others fly,” etc. See also iv. 322, etc. below.

723. Played, etc. The MS. reads:

“Played on/ the bosoms of the lake,

/ Lock Katrine’s still expanse;

The birch, the wild rose, and the broom

Wasted around their rich perfume...

The birch-trees wept in balmy dew;

The aspen slept on Benvenue;

Wild were the heart whose passions’ power

Defied the influence of the hour.”

724. Passion’s. The reading of the 1st ed. and that of 1821; some recent eds. have “passions’.”

738. Orisons. The 1st ed. has “orison” both here and in 740 (the ed. of 1821 only in the latter); but the word is almost invariably plural, both in poetry and prose — always in Shakespeare and Milton.

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