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A brother's eye had seen the grief	A
That Duart's lady bore	B
His boat with sail half raised flies down	C
The sound by green Lismore	B
Ahaladah Ahaladah	D
Why speeds your boat so fast	D
No scene of joy shall light your track	E
Adown the spray strewn blast	D
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The very trees upon the isle	F
Rock to and fro and wail	G
The very birds cry sad and shrill	H
Storm driven where you sail	G
O when for yon dim mainland shore	B
You launched your keel to start	D
You knew not of the load 'twill bear	B
The heavier load your heart	D
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See what is that which yonder gleams	I
Where skarts alone make home	J
Is that but one oft breaking sea	K
Some frequent fount of foam	J
The morn is dark and indistinct	D
Is all through drift and cloud	D
Around the rock white waters toss	L
As flaps in wind a shroud	D
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It cannot be a leaping jet	D
Nor form of rock or wave	M
There stands some being saved by God	D
In mercy from the grave	M
Down with the sail out oars the boat	D
Can reach the leeward side	D
Mother of Heaven look you men	N
Where breaks that roaring tide	D
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A living woman do I dream	O
Or stands my sister there	B
Where only at the middle ebb	P
The shelving ledge is bare	B
O white as surf that sweeps her knee	K
She falls but not to die	D
Ahaladah is at her side	D
He bears her up on high	D
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Away from Duart now he steers	Q
Why curses he its lord	D
Why flee to Inveraray's strength	R
As though he feared his sword	D
Proud triumph's notes were often heard	D
Where Aray's waters sing	S
And mourners there have often wept	D
The slain for faith and king	S
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But never would that lady's lips	T
There speak her grievous woe	U
Though in her chamber in the night	D
Her frequent tears would flow	U
She dreamt of wrong where love was sought	D
Of crafty cruel eyes	V
Of one steep stair of grasping hands	W
That stifled piteous cries	V
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Of wind which tore the hissing waves	X
And howled o'er mountains bare	B
Where swollen burns in feathery clouds	Y
Were dashed into the air	B
Of one wet rock of horror wild	D
When she was left alone	Z
Till madness seemed to whelm her thought	D
And with a shuddering moan	Z
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Again she heard the surges rush	A2
And where she shrinking turned	D
The seaweed there like woman's hair	B
The murderous billows spurned	D
Again the night and wind were joined	D
To mock her hope of aid	D
Till shrieking she awoke where once	B2
She slept a happy maid	D
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But none would she accuse and dumb	C2
Rebuked the vengeance call	D2
Till one dark eve at supper time	E2
Within the old dim hall	D2
She heard some whisper and she saw	F2
Her brother leave his place	G2
Go forth and entering beckon out	D
A band with stern set face	G2
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Again he came and o'er her bent	D
And whispered Sister dear	B
Let fall your veil about your head	D
Nor tremble when you hear	B
That Duart comes in mourner's guise	V
Lo there he takes his seat	D
Chief tell us why your mien is sad	D
When friends and kinsmen meet	D
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My woes are great my wife lies dead	D
But yester week these hands	W
Closed her sweet eyes and now I bring	S
Her body to your lands	W
Then was the arras drawn aside	D
And girt with wake lights drear	B
Beneath the archway's carven vault	D
Was borne a white crossed bier	B
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And Duart rose his shifting eye	D
Moved like a marsh fire pale	G
But circling back still restless scanned	D
The lady of the veil	G
Then through the silence broke a voice	H2
Know you that lady chief	A
She too a guest with us like you	I2
Well knows the pangs of grief	A
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You come from far bring wine To each	J2
The ruddy goblet passed	D
The lady raised her hand and back	E
The heavy veil she cast	D
Strong Duart reeled as from a stroke	K2
He stared as at the dead	D
How could her glance o'er that dark face	G2
Such deathly palor spread	D
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Your play is out ah cursed fiend	D
Ahaladah cried loud	D
Your death shall be no phantom false	L2
No empty mask your shroud	D
If hospitality's high law	F2
Here shields your life awhile	F
By all the saints you yet shall feel	M2
The vengeance of Argyll	F
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In Edinburgh Duart's Lord	D
Strides down the shadowed town	C
The white moon glints on roofs o'erhead	D
And on St Giles's crown	C
Another step is on the street	D
The watchmen hear no cry	D
But drenched in blood lies Duart where	B
Ahaladah passed by	D

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