Scott's Lady of the Lake

by Walter Scott

XVI.

Far up the lengthen’d lake were spied

Four darkening specks upon the tide,

That, slow enlarging on the view,

Four mann’d and masted barges grew,

And, bearing downwards from Glengyle,

Steer’d full upon the lonely isle;

The point of Brianchoil[118] they pass’d,

And, to the windward as they cast,