“So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)
“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)
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