Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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The Annual of Fought with the children, The young heirs of Edward. Then the Northmen departed, Departed in nailed ships. Sad remainder of spears, Into the noisy sea, Over deep water, Ashamed, to seek Dublin, And afterwards Ireland, The brothers together. The king and the atheling, Sought the country, The land of West-Saxons, Rejoicing in victory. They left behind them, To share the corpses, The dark-coated one. The black, tawny raven, The horny-beaked one, aud The grey -coated one. The eagle to prey on the carrion. The greedy war-hawk and the grey wild beast, The wolf in the wilds. Ne ' er was more slaughter, Of folks in this island. Hewed down by the sword ' s edge, As the books tell us. The old philosophers. Since eastward hither, Came the Angles and Saxons, Over the broad sea. Sought for Britain, Conquered the Welsh, The earls, the proud warriors. Eager ibr glory, found a home. Abby McFakl. nd.

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The Maty Bald-win Scviinary There was routed, The chief of the Northmen, With the little army, Pushed by necessity Into the ship ' s prow; Tlie galley pushed out, Into the deep sea. Outside the king swerved Into the dark flood. Rescued his life. Thither likewise, Into his northern home, The experienced Constantine, Came with hasty flight. The hoary-haired warrior; He did not need to boast. Of the joining of weapons, Bereft of his kinsmen. Of friends on the battle-field; And his son he left Covered with wounds, Youthful in battle. He did not need to boast, Of the clashing of swords. The grizzly-haired chief, The hateful old warrior. Nor Anlaf more. With his army ' s remainder; They need not boast that they Excelled on the battle-field, In works of battle. In the conflict of banners. In the meeting of javelins, In the encounter of heroes. In the joining of weapons, After thev on the battle-field.

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The Mary Baldzvin Saninary. SUPERSTITIONS OF SCOTLAND. It is not strange that in their bleak, desolate homes among the rugged mountains and on the shores of their beautiful lakes, alone and far away from the dwellings of man that the High- landers of Scotland should be peculiarly susceptible to wild and weird superstitions, that all nature should speak to them and that thej ' should try to interpret her voice. They strug- gled hard to read the future and. among the many devices, none strike us as more weird than that used by Roderick Dhu. A bullock was slain. Brian, the priest, was wrapped in its skin, placed on a rock beneath a waterfall and left alone to think about the question under consideration. We are not surprised that, when this ferocious man arose from his perilous position, his matted hair obscuring his face, his body seamed and scarred by penances , Roderick Dhu should have deemed his prophecy — Who spills the foremost foeman ' s life — That party conquers in the strife — an inspiration of the disembodi- ed spirits and should have thought the killing of James a holy duty. The Highlanders firmly believed in the second sight and indeed some marvelous instances of it are recorded. It is said that this faculty is not hereditary nor can it be acquired as has been imagined. When a person sees a vision, his eyelids are erected and the eye continues staring until the object vanishes. A story is told of one aged seer, who, after he had seen a vis- ion, would have to be assisted in pulling his eyelids down. The vision makes such an impression upon those who see it that they can think of nothing else as long as it continues and are jovial or sad according to the object represented to them. Every vision has a certain interpretation. If a woman is seen standing at a man ' s left hand, it is a presage that she will be his wnfe whether they be married to others or unmarried. To see a spark of fire upon one ' s arm or breast is a forerunner of a dead child to be seen in the arms of that person. To see a seat empty at the time of one ' s sitting in it is a presage of the person ' s death soon afterward. When a shroud is seen about