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Down the Savoy valleys sounding	A
Echoing round this castle old	B
'Mid the distant mountain chalets	C
Hark what bell for church is toll'd	B
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In the bright October morning	A
Savoy's Duke had left his bride	D
From the castle past the drawbridge	E
Flow'd the hunters' merry tide	D
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Steeds are neighing gallants glittering	A
Gay her smiling lord to greet	F
From her mullion'd chamber casement	F
Smiles the Duchess Marguerite	F
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From Vienna by the Danube	G
Here she came a bride in spring	A
Now the autumn crisps the forest	F
Hunters gather bugles ring	A
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Hounds are pulling prickers swearing	A
Horses fret and boar spears glance	H
Off They sweep the marshy forests	I
Westward on the side of France	H
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Hark the game's on foot they scatter	J
Down the forest ridings lone	K
Furious single horsemen gallop	L
Hark a shout a crash a groan	K
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Pale and breathless came the hunters	M
On the turf dead lies the boar	N
God the Duke lies stretch'd beside him	O
Senseless weltering in his gore	N
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In the dull October evening	A
Down the leaf strewn forest road	F
To the castle past the drawbridge	E
Came the hunters with their load	F
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In the hall with sconces blazing	A
Ladies waiting round her seat	F
Clothed in smiles beneath the dais	C
Sate the Duchess Marguerite	F
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Hark below the gates unbarring	A
Tramp of men and quick commands	P
' 'Tis my lord come back from hunting '	-
And the Duchess claps her hands	P
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Slow and tired came the hunters	M
Stopp'd in darkness in the court	F
' Ho this way ye laggard hunters	M
To the hall What sport What sport '	-
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Slow they enter'd with their Master	J
In the hall they laid him down	Q
On his coat were leaves and blood stains	R
On his brow an angry frown	Q
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Dead her princely youthful husband	F
Lay before his youthful wife	S
Bloody 'neath the flaring sconces	T
And the sight froze all her life	S
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In Vienna by the Danube	G
Kings hold revel gallants meet	F
Gay of old amid the gayest	F
Was the Duchess Marguerite	F
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In Vienna by the Danube	G
Feast and dance her youth beguil'd	F
Till that hour she never sorrow'd	F
But from then she never smil'd	F
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'Mid the Savoy mountain valleys	U
Far from town or haunt of man	V
Stands a lonely church unfinish'd	F
Which the Duchess Maud began	V
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Old that Duchess stern began it	F
In grey age with palsied hands	P
But she died while it was building	A
And the Church unfinish'd stands	P
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Stands as erst the builders left it	F
When she sank into her grave	W
Mountain greensward paves the chancel	X
Harebells flower in the nave	W
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'In my castle all is sorrow '	-
Said the Duchess Marguerite then	Y
'Guide me some one to the mountain	Z
We will build the Church again '	-
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Sandall'd palmers faring homeward	F
Austrian knights from Syria came	A2
'Austrian wanderers bring O warders	M
Homage to your Austrian dame '	-
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From the gate the warders answer'd	F
'Gone O knights is she you knew	B2
Dead our Duke and gone his Duchess	C2
Seek her at the Church of Brou '	-
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Austrian knights and march worn palmers	C2
Climb the winding mountain way	D2
Reach the valley where the Fabric	A
Rises higher day by day	D2
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Stones are sawing hammers ringing	A
On the work the bright sun shines	C2
In the Savoy mountain meadows	C2
By the stream below the pines	C2
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On her palfry white the Duchess	C2
Sate and watch'd her working train	E2
Flemish carvers Lombard gilders	C2
German masons smiths from Spain	E2
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Clad in black on her white palfrey	F2
Her old architect beside	F
There they found her in the mountains	C2
Morn and noon and eventide	F
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There she sate and watch'd the builders	C2
Till the Church was roof'd and done	Z
Last of all the builders rear'd her	J
In the nave a tomb of stone	K
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On the tomb two forms they sculptured	F
Lifelike in the marble pale	X
One the Duke in helm and armour	J
One the Duchess in her veil	X
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Round the tomb the carved stone fretwork	A
Was at Easter tide put on	G2
Then the Duchess closed her labours	C2
And she died at the St John	G2

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