StoryTitle("caps", "Lochinvar") ?>
and "Lord Ullin's Daughter," the first by Scott (1771-1832) and
the second by Campbell (1777-1844), are companions in sentiment and equally
popular with boys who love to win anything desirable by heroic effort.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the west.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through all the wide Border his steed was the best,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And save his good broadsword he weapons had none;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He swam the Eske River where ford there was none;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But ere he alighted at Netherby gate", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bride had consented, the gallant came late:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So boldly he entered the Netherby Hall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among bridesmen and kinsmen and brothers and all:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word),", "") ?>
PagePoem(104, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Oh, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now am I come, with this lost love of mine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He quaffed of the wine, and he threw down the cup.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He took her soft hand ere her mother could bar,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Now tread we a measure!\" said young Lochinvar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So stately his form, and so lovely her face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That never a hall such a galliard did grace;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the bridemaidens whispered, \"'Twere better by far", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(105, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So light to the saddle before her he sprung!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They'll have fleet steeds that follow,\" quoth young Lochinvar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was mounting 'mong Grĉmes of the Netherby clan;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was racing and chasing, on Cannobie Lee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Sir Walter Scott.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>