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SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 5. NIDPATH CASTLE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stern, rugged pile! Thy scowl recalls the days
Last Line: Thy giant walls seem'd picturesquely piled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland


STERN, rugged pile! thy scowl recalls the days
Of foray and of feud, when, long ago,
Homes were thought worthy of reproach or praise
Only as yielding safeguards from the foe:
Over thy gateways the armorial arms
Proclaim of doughty Douglases, who held
Thy towers against the foe, and thence repell'd
Oft, after efforts vain, invasion's harms.
Eve dimm'd the hills, as, by the Tweed below,
We sat where once thy blossomy orchards smiled,
And yet where many an apple-tree grows wild,
Listening the blackbird, and the river's flow;
While, high between us and the sunset glow,
Thy giant walls seem'd picturesquely piled.








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