Scott's Lady of the Lake

by Walter Scott

Ben-an’s gray scalp the accents knew,[185]

The joyous wolf from covert drew,

The exulting eagle scream’d afar,—

They knew the voice of Alpine’s war.

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The shout was hush’d on lake and fell,

The monk resumed his mutter’d spell:

Dismal and low its accents came,

The while he scathed[186] the Cross with flame;