Chapter 156 No.156

But scant three miles the band had rode,

When o'er a height they passed,

And, sudden, close before them showed

His towers, Tantallon vast;

Broad, massive, high, and stretching far,

And held impregnable in war,

On a projecting rock they rose,

And round three sides the ocean flows,

The fourth did battled walls enclose,

And