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SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 1. WARK CASTLE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emblem of strength, which time hath quite subdued
Last Line: While carham whispers of the slaughter'd dane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland


EMBLEM of strength, which time hath quite subdued,
Scarcely on thy green mount the eye may trace
Those girding walls which made thee once a place
Of succour, in old days of deadly feud.
Yes! thou wert once the Scotch marauder's dread;
And vainly did the Roxburgh shafts assail
Thy moated towers, from which they fell like hail;
While waved Northumbria's pennon o'er thy head.
Thou wert the work of man, and so hast pass'd
Like those who piled thee; but the features still
Of steadfast Nature all unchanged remain;
Still Cheviot listens to the northern blast,
And the blue Tweed winds murmuring round thy hill;
While Carham whispers of the slaughter'd Dane.





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