That slow and fearful leaves the side,

But, when it feels the middle stream,

Drives downward swift as lightning’s beam.

XV.

BATTLE OF BEAL’ AN DUINE.

“The Minstrel came once more to view

The eastern ridge of Benvenue,

For ere he parted, he would say

Farewell to lovely Loch Achray—

Where shall he find, in foreign land,