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Before the fair Aurora spread	A
Her azure mantle o'er the skies	B
While sleep its pleasing influence shed	A
On grateful mortals weary eyes	B
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Emerg'd from a surrounding wood	C
On a bleak mountain's sullen brow	D
A solitary outlaw stood	C
And view'd through mist the world below	E
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With deep regret his bosom fraught	F
His arms were wreath'd in sorrow's knot	G
Nor seem'd he yet by patience taught	F
To bear submissively his lot	G
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Hidden was each enlivening grace	H
Deprest by his untimely doom	I
A hectic flush o'erspread his face	H
Instead of nature's florid bloom	I
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Untutor'd in the school of grief	J
His pining spirit spoke in sighs	B
Though almost hopeless of relief	J
He look'd around with eager eyes	B
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And fondly bent an anxious ear	K
To the slow murmuring of the breeze	L
Essaying oft in vain to hear	K
A friendly step beneath the trees	L
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Delusive wish at last he cried	M
Why wilt thou fill my aching breast	N
And thus my miseries deride	M
By telling how I might be blest	N
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No kind consolers hither bend	O
By sympathy to ease my care	P
Here comes no ever faithful friend	O
Who yet might shield me from despair	P
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The abbey's well known tow'r I seek	Q
It fades from my impassion'd eye	R
The fancied outlines softly break	S
And melt into the distant sky	R
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No pitying object now remains	T
That I may know those scenes are near	U
Where generous love and friendship reigns	T
And Alwin's name may claim a tear	P
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And you my lov'd paternal groves	V
Where I no more must shew my head	A
In your fair walks a stranger roves	V
And treacherous Normans daily tread	A
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E'en now their presence may prophane	W
The halls where Herbert did reside	M
E'en now may joy and gladness reign	W
And Adelaide be Percy's bride	M
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Yet no her soul the seat of truth	X
Would ne'er a second love receive	Y
The sacred vows of artless youth	X
Her Alwin ever shall believe	Y
	-
They still shall comfort my sad heart	Z
And sooth the anguish of my mind	A2
Shall still a cheering hope impart	Z
And make me somewhat more resign'd	A2
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Ah yet I hear her trembling hand	B2
Withdraw the bolt to set me free	C2
Yet hear the hasty kind command	B2
My Alwin fly and live for me	C2
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No other can obtain my love	D2
I would for thee the world resign	W
Then let thy prompt obedience prove	E2
That thou art truly wholly mine	W
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And ever to her promise true	F2
No pleasure shall her soul elate	G2
For yet her constant thoughts pursue	F2
A wretched Outlaw's hapless fate	G2
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In vain proud Ranulph shall upbraid	H2
My Adelaide is still the same	I2
And for thy sake dear lovely maid	H2
I will not curse the Norman name	I2
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Not though my father's large domains	V
Are plunder'd by the murderous bands	V
And my Northumbria's fertile plains	V
Lie wasted by their cruel hands	V
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Though as a son I mourn the fate	G2
Of those to whom my life I owe	E
And hate the hearts that thus create	G2
The dimness of severest woe	E
	-
Though I behold no friendly steel	J2
To give my Emma vengeance drawn	W
And though a brother's pangs I feel	J2
To know her destitute forlorn	W
	-
Though banish'd from the sight of day	K2
In dreary solitude I pine	W
And forc'd to feel a tyrant's sway	K2
Each dear paternal right resign	W
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Yet will I seal my lips nor dare	P
To extricate my haughty foes	V
The hateful guilty root I spare	P
Which can produce so fair a rose	V
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But thou my heart wilt thou be calm	L2
Oh tell me can reflection cease	V
And this fond bosom now so warm	M2
Be ever tranquilliz'd to peace	V
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Ah no a father's scornful eye	R
Is ever present to my view	F2
And tells me Herbert dar'd to die	R
Though Normans could his son subdue	F2
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Each feeble plea his soul disdains	V
They cannot for the fault atone	W
Though when I left Northumbria's plains	V
I had not fifteen summers known	W
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And hear me Herbert when I swear	P
It was not fear that urg'd my flight	N2
A worthless life was not my care	P
I thought but of a parent's right	N2
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Then pardon that my youth comply'd	N2
To ease a mother's anxious fears	V
That when I rather would have died	N2
I yielded to a sister's tears	V
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Alas a peasant's humble shed	N2
Soon saw our sainted parents' death	O2
Who while our hearts in anguish bled	N2
With pious hopes resign'd her breath	O2
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When mists foretel the ev'ning near	U
And clouds of chilling dew arise	V
We sought the grave of her so dear	U
And offer'd there our tears and sighs	V
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'Till mild reflection lent her aid	N2
And bade our filial sorrows cease	V
The fever of our souls allay'd	N2
We sunk into a mournful peace	V
	-
My pensive bosom strove to keep	P2
A dying mother's last request	N2
I let the thoughts of vengeance sleep	P2
And studied to make Emma blest	N2
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No longer shunning of the dawn	W
Or seeking the sequester'd shade	N2
I call'd my sister to the lawn	W
And trod with her the flow'ry glade	N2
	-
Submitting to our wayward fate	N2
I talk'd not of the treasures flown	W
But still seem'd easy and sedate	N2
While pressing verdure not my own	W
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Then all I wish'd and all I fear'd	N2
Was by fraternal love inspir'd	N2
And one by every tie endear'd	N2
The only friend my soul desir'd	N2
	-
Yet soon that pleasing calmness fled	N2
A Norman beauty won my heart	N2
Imperious love my footsteps led	N2
And bade all secrecy depart	N2
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I own'd the splendour of my race	V
Altho' a peasant's form I bore	Q2
I fancied silence was disgrace	V
And hid my sentiments no more	Q2
	-
Her father's tongue my fate decreed	N2
And doom'd great Herbert's son to shame	I2
For tho' by love from prison freed	N2
I bear an outlaw's hateful name	I2
	-
My sister no fond friend can shield	N2
No relative allay her grief	J
For tyranny all hearts hath steel'd	N2
And nought can give her soul relief	J
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With ev'ry quality to charm	R2
A guardian will not heaven allow	D
To screen thy artless youth from harm	R2
And fair deserted help thee now	D
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No aid no comfort can be nigh	R
And shall thy brother here remain	W
Has he not fortitude to fly	R
And burst the heavy servile chain	W
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Why should I linger here alone	W
Unseen by every human eye	R
To live unfriended and unknown	W
And in this dreary desart die	R
	-
For now the sun beams gild the sky	R
And give the misty morning grace	V
Far from the light I'm doom'd to fly	R
Abandon'd by the human race	V
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But no I'll bear suspense no more	Q2
Too dear a price to purchase breath	O2
I'll seek the scenes I yet deplore	Q2
And meet a welcome wish'd for death	O2
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Tortur'd to frenzy Alwin flew	F2
And as he left his sad retreat	N2
He turning look'd a last adieu	F2
And shook the dew drops from his feet	N2
	-
His hurried steps nor press'd the ground	N2
Nor pointed out the path he came	I2
And though so long the way he found	N2
Despair buoy'd up his fainting frame	I2
	-
The sun shot forth a feeble ray	K2
But hid his glorious orb from sight	N2
And the pale evening's modest grey	K2
Had soften'd the too glaring light	N2
	-
When Alwin reach'd the humble cot	N2
That once he did with Emma share	P
And weeping hail'd the well known spot	N2
In vain for Emma was not there	P
	-
Repuls'd he turn'd his languid eye	R
Where Ranulph's lofty turrets rose	V
And heaving disappointment's sigh	R
He sought the mansion of his foes	V
	-
His faltering step when there he came	I2
A proud disdainful air possest	N2
Memory recall'd his former shame	I2
And indignation fill'd his breast	N2
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He enter'd in his wild attire	S2
With hasty pace and haggard brow	D
Scorn fill'd his azure eye with fire	S2
And gave his cheeks a deeper glow	E
	-
A graceful knight who met his view	F2
Sat pleading by a lady's side	N2
And Alwin's jealous bosom knew	F2
Lord Percy and his fated bride	N2
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Mistaken youth thy eyes have seen	W
The persons pictur'd in thy mind	N2
But who is that with pensive mien	W
And forehead on her hand reclin'd	N2
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O'er whom Lord Ranulph fondly bends	V
With sorrow seated on his brow	D
While the regretting tear descends	V
O'er his pale cheek in silent woe	E
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Ah is it thus sad Alwin said	N2
The fancied bride the accents knew	F2
Lord Percy rais'd his drooping head	N2
And lovely Emma met his view	F2
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Then rapture and surprize prevail'd	N2
Each bosom felt confus'd delight	N2
While his return the mourner hail'd	N2
And thus his sorrows did requite	N2
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O dearest Alwin now no more	Q2
My father disapproves our flame	I2
No longer we thy loss deplore	Q2
Or tremble to pronounce thy name	I2
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A noble friend has gain'd our cause	V
And vanquish'd all his former hate	N2
Who ere he own'd a lover's laws	V
With generous tears had wept thy fate	N2
	-
Yes injur'd youth Lord Ranulph cried	N2
Thou art this day my chosen heir	P
In Adelaide behold thy bride	N2
Thy sister's future husband there	P
	-
Lord Percy to a candid mind	N2
Unites a fervour like thy own	W
And Emma not to merit blind	N2
Refers his cause to thee alone	W
	-
If thou wilt grant his fond desire	S2
'Twill gain a brave a noble friend	N2
And the possessions of thy sire	S2
To his posterity descend	N2
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And did my Emma stay to hear	K
Her brother sanctify her choice	V
Ah Percy now you need not fear	U
From Alwin a dissenting voice	V
	-
Blest in my love in Emma blest	N2
My heart each cherish'd wish obtains	V
Northumbrians now no more opprest	N2
Shall own a son of Herbert reigns	V
	-
May ye rebuild the peasant's cot	N2
Exalt the woe depressed head	N2
And o'er each desolated spot	N2
The fostering calm of quiet spread	N2
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May sterne reserve and caution cease	V
With lenient hand dispense your sway	K2
Give them the healing balm of peace	V
Their wounded spirits will obey	K2
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Ah cheer their gloom dispel their care	P
The smile will soon replace the tear	P
And wedded to a Saxon fair	P
The foreign lord no more appear	U