But merrier were they in Dunfermline[252] gray,

When all the bells were ringing.

XVI.

Just as the minstrel sounds were stayed,

A stranger climb’d the steepy glade;

His martial step, his stately mien,

His hunting suit of Lincoln green,

His eagle glance, remembrance claims—

’Tis Snowdoun’s Knight, ’tis James Fitz-James.

Ellen beheld as in a dream,