208. And every tuft, etc. The MS. reads:

"And each lone tuft of broom gives life

To plaided warrior armed for strife.

That whistle manned the lonely glen

With full five hundred armed men;"

and below (214):

"All silent, too, they stood, and still,

Watching their leader's beck and will,

While forward step and weapon show

They long to rush upon the foe,

Like the loose crag whose tottering mass

Hung threatening o'er the hollow pass."

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