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The night it was still and the moon it shone	A
Serenely on the sea	B
And the waves at the foot of the rifted rock	C
They murmur'd pleasantly	B
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When Gondoline roam'd along the shore	D
A maiden full fair to the sight	E
Though love had made bleak the rose on her cheek	F
And turn'd it to deadly white	E
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Her thoughts they were drear and the silent tear	G
It fill'd her faint blue eye	H
As oft she heard in fancy's ear	I
Her Bertrand's dying sigh	H
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Her Bertrand was the bravest youth	J
Of all our good king's men	K
And he was gone to the Holy Land	L
To fight the Saracen	K
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And many a month had pass'd away	M
And many a rolling year	N
But nothing the maid from Palestine	K
Could of her lover hear	I
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Full oft she vainly tried to pierce	O
The ocean's misty face	P
Full oft she thought her lover's bark	Q
She on the wave could trace	P
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And every night she placed a light	E
In the high rock's lonely tower	R
To guide her lover to the land	L
Should the murky tempest lower	R
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But now despair had seized her breast	S
And sunken in her eye	H
Oh tell me but if Bertrand live	T
And I in peace will die	H
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She wander'd o'er the lonely shore	D
The curlew scream'd above	U
She heard the scream with a sickening heart	V
Much boding on her love	U
	-
Yet still she kept her lonely way	M
And this was all her cry	H
Oh tell me but if Bertrand live	T
And I in peace shall die	H
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And now she came to a horrible rift	W
All in the rock's hard side	X
A bleak and blasted oak o'erspread	X
The cavern yawning wide	X
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And pendant from its dismal top	Y
The deadly nightshade hung	Z
The hemlock and the aconite	X
Across the mouth was flung	Z
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And all within was dark and drear	H
And all without was calm	A2
Yet Gondoline enter'd her soul upheld	X
By some deep working charm	B2
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And as she enter'd the cavern wide	X
The moonbeam gleamed pale	C2
And she saw a snake on the craggy rock	C
It clung by its slimy tail	C2
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Her foot it slipp'd and she stood aghast	X
She trod on a bloated toad	X
Yet still upheld by the secret charm	B2
She kept upon her road	X
	-
And now upon her frozen ear	H
Mysterious sounds arose	D2
So on the mountain's piny top	Y
The blustering north wind blows	D2
	-
Then furious peals of laughter loud	X
Were heard with thundering sound	X
Till they died away in soft decay	M
Low whispering o'er the ground	X
	-
Yet still the maiden onward went	X
The charm yet onward led	X
Though each big glaring ball of sight	X
Seem'd bursting from her head	X
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But now a pale blue light she saw	E2
It from a distance came	F2
She follow'd till upon her sight	X
Burst full a flood of flame	F2
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She stood appall'd yet still the charm	B2
Upheld her sinking soul	G2
Yet each bent knee the other smote	X
And each wild eye did roll	G2
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And such a sight as she saw there	H
No mortal saw before	H
And such a sight as she saw there	H
No mortal shall see more	H
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A burning cauldron stood in the midst	X
The flame was fierce and high	H
And all the cave so wide and long	H2
Was plainly seen thereby	H
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And round about the cauldron stout	X
Twelve withered witches stood	X
Their waists were bound with living snakes	I2
And their hair was stiff with blood	X
	-
Their hands were gory too and red	X
And fiercely flamed their eyes	J2
And they were muttering indistinct	X
Their hellish mysteries	K2
	-
And suddenly they join'd their hands	L2
And utter'd a joyous cry	H
And round about the cauldron stout	X
They danced right merrily	B
	-
And now they stopp'd and each prepared	X
To tell what she had done	K
Since last the lady of the night	X
Her waning course had run	K
	-
Behind a rock stood Gondoline	K
Thick weeds her face did veil	C2
And she lean'd fearful forwarder	H
To hear the dreadful tale	C2
	-
The first arose She said she'd seen	K
Rare sport since the blind cat mew'd	X
She'd been to sea in a leaky sieve	M2
And a jovial storm had brew'd	X
	-
She'd called around the winged winds	N2
And raised a devilish rout	X
And she laugh'd so loud the peals were heard	X
Full fifteen leagues about	X
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She said there was a little bark	Q
Upon the roaring wave	O2
And there was a woman there who'd been	K
To see her husband's grave	O2
	-
And she had got a child in her arms	P2
It was her only child	X
And oft its little infant pranks	Q2
Her heavy heart beguiled	X
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And there was too in that same bark	Q
A father and his son	K
The lad was sickly and the sire	H
Was old and woe begone	K
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And when the tempest waxed strong	H2
And the bark could no more it 'bide	X
She said it was jovial fun to hear	H
How the poor devils cried	X
	-
The mother clasp'd her orphan child	X
Unto her breast and wept	X
And sweetly folded in her arms	P2
The careless baby slept	X
	-
And she told how in the shape of the wind	X
As manfully it roar'd	X
She twisted her hand in the infant's hair	H
And threw it overboard	X
	-
And to have seen the mother's pangs	R2
'Twas a glorious sight to see	B
The crew could scarcely hold her down	K
From jumping in the sea	B
	-
The hag held a lock of her hair in her hand	X
And it was soft and fair	H
It must have been a lovely child	X
To have had such lovely hair	H
	-
And she said the father in his arms	P2
He held his sickly son	K
And his dying throes they fast arose	D2
His pains were nearly done	K
	-
And she throttled the youth with her sinewy hands	L2
And his face grew deadly blue	S2
And the father he tore his thin gray hair	H
And kiss'd the livid hue	S2
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And then she told how she bored a hole	G2
In the bark and it fill'd away	M
And 'twas rare to hear how some did swear	H
And some did vow and pray	M
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The man and woman they soon were dead	X
The sailors their strength did urge	T2
But the billows that beat were their winding sheet	X
And the winds sung their funeral dirge	T2
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She threw the infant's hair in the fire	H
The red flame flamed high	H
And round about the cauldron stout	X
They danced right merrily	B
	-
The second begun She said she had done	K
The task that Queen Hecate had set her	H
And that the devil the father of evil	U2
Had never accomplished a better	H
	-
She said there was an aged woman	K
And she had a daughter fair	H
Whose evil habits fill'd her heart	X
With misery and care	H
	-
The daughter had a paramour	H
A wicked man was he	B
And oft the woman him against	X
Did murmur grievously	B
	-
And the hag had work'd the daughter up	V2
To murder her old mother	H
That then she might seize on all her goods	W2
And wanton with her lover	H
	-
And one night as the old woman	K
Was sick and ill in bed	X
And pondering solely on the life	X2
Her wicked daughter led	X
	-
She heard her footstep on the floor	H
And she raised her pallid head	X
And she saw her daughter with a knife	X2
Approaching to her bed	X
	-
And said My child I'm very ill	Y2
I have not long to live	T
Now kiss my cheek that ere I die	H
Thy sins I may forgive	M2
	-
And the murderess bent to kiss her cheek	F
And she lifted the sharp bright knife	X2
And the mother saw her fell intent	X
And hard she begg'd for life	X2
	-
But prayers would nothing her avail	C2
And she scream'd aloud with fear	H
But the house was lone and the piercing screams	Z2
Could reach no human ear	H
	-
And though that she was sick and old	X
She struggled hard and fought	X
The murderess cut three fingers through	H
Ere she could reach her throat	X
	-
And the hag she held her fingers up	V2
The skin was mangled sore	H
And they all agreed a nobler deed	X
Was never done before	H
	-
And she threw the fingers in the fire	H
The red flame flamed high	H
And round about the cauldron stout	X
They danced right merrily	B
	-
The third arose She said she'd been	K
To holy Palestine	K
And seen more blood in one short day	M
Than they had all seen in nine	K
	-
Now Gondoline with fearful steps	A3
Drew nearer to the flame	F2
For much she dreaded now to hear	H
Her hapless lover's name	F2
	-
The hag related then the sports	B3
Of that eventful day	M
When on the well contested field	X
Full fifteen thousand lay	M
	-
She said that she in human gore	H
Above the knees did wade	X
And that no tongue could truly tell	C3
The tricks she there had play'd	X
	-
There was a gallant featured youth	J
Who like a hero fought	X
He kiss'd a bracelet on his wrist	X
And every danger sought	X
	-
And in a vassal's garb disguised	X
Unto the knight she sues	D3
And tells him she from Britain comes	E3
And brings unwelcome news	D3
	-
That three days ere she had embark'd	X
His love had given her hand	X
Unto a wealthy Thane and thought	X
Him dead in Holy Land	X
	-
And to have seen how he did writhe	F3
When this her tale she told	X
It would have made a wizard's blood	X
Within his heart run cold	X
	-
Then fierce he spurr'd his warrior steed	X
And sought the battle's bed	X
And soon all mangled o'er with wounds	G3
He on the cold turf bled	X
	-
And from his smoking corse she tore	H
His head half clove in two	H
She ceased and from beneath her garb	H3
The bloody trophy drew	H
	-
The eyes were starting from their socks	I3
The mouth it ghastly grinn'd	X
And there was a gash across the brow	H
The scalp was nearly skinn'd	X
	-
'Twas Bertrand's head With a terrible scream	J3
The maiden gave a spring	K3
And from her fearful hiding place	P
She fell into the ring	K3
	-
The lights they fled the cauldron sunk	L3
Deep thunders shook the dome	M3
And hollow peals of laughter came	F2
Resounding through the gloom	N3
	-
Insensible the maiden lay	M
Upon the hellish ground	X
And still mysterious sounds were heard	X
At intervals around	X
	-
She woke she half arose and wild	X
She cast a horrid glare	H
The sounds had ceased the lights had fled	X
And all was stillness there	H
	-
And through an awning in the rock	C
The moon it sweetly shone	K
And show'd a river in the cave	O2
Which dismally did moan	K
	-
The stream was black it sounded deep	O3
As it rush'd the rocks between	K
It offer'd well for madness fired	X
The breast of Gondoline	K
	-
She plunged in the torrent moan'd	X
With its accustom'd sound	X
And hollow peals of laughter loud	X
Again rebellow'd round	X
	-
The maid was seen no more But oft	X
Her ghost is known to glide	X
At midnight's silent solemn hour	H
Along the ocean's side	X