undersing

…the enthusiastic borderism of Scott, who, rather than that a freebooter should under-act his part, or a bard undersing his praise, took the liberty of sometimes inventing the action and then resounding its glories, and debiting both to the account of originals, quite innocent of either.

Alas me! what a murmur and motion I hear,

As of birds flying near!

And the air undersings

The soft stroke of their wings—

And all life that approaches, I wait for in fear.