...Lay of the Last .Minstrel: 'The way was long, the wind was cold, / The Minstrel was infirm and old; / ...The harp, his sole remaining joy, / Was carried by an orphan boy'. 2 Four Galsworthy poems appeared in the June number (2, 411-13); the second is 'Rose and Yew'. ' Galsworthy...

...his kind, accompanied only by an orphan boy, he regrets the past and longs for the quiet of death: The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border...tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppress'd, Wished to be with them, and at rest. This minstrel happens to wander into the castle of...

...of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," a work which suggested Scott's romanticized view of his calling: The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border...tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppress'd, Wished to be with them, and at rest. But Scott was a bold pioneer as well as late-coming...

...for himself: in the poem's introduction the eponymous minstrel, a thinly disguised figure for Scott ("The last of all the bards was he, / Who sung of Border chivalry") is patronized by Anne Scott, first Duchess of Buccleuch and ancestor of the Buccleuchs who would be...

...long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His wither'd cheek and tresses gray, Seern'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining...tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppress'd, Wish'd to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey borne, He caroll'd, light...

...long, the wind was eold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining...oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more, on praneing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn ; 18 Title page and opening lines of Scott's...