...the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door. And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to Lear. SCOTT. &jrt <Uranbamt. — •*• — ON the green hill top, Hard by the house of prayer, a...

...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorn 'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. Hush'd is the harp — the Minstrel gone. And did he wander forth alone 1 Alone, in indigence and age,...

...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with...

...manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged hin bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower ; The minstrel gazed with...

...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door. And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. i MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For...

...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door; And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. SIR WALTER SCOTT. 10. THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM. IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done,...

...throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ;...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with...

...QUEEN. 369 The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ;...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. SIR W. SCOTT. CLVI THE FAIRY QUEEN. Her chariot ready straight is made, Each thing therein is fitting...

...harmless art a crime. A wandering haqjer, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, _ And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a King had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with...

...among the commonalty. Thus Scott's " Last Minstrel" whiningly tells how he was fain, at last, "To tune, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Latterly, the minstrels, troubadours, &c. added less laudable employment to their own ostensible calling...