Macgregor's Gathering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDBB EEBB FFBB GGBB HHBB IIJJBB| The moon's on the lake and the mist's on the brae | A |
| And the Clan has a name that is nameless by day | A |
| Then gather gather gather Grigalach | B |
| Gather gather gather Grigalach | B |
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| Our signal for fight that from monarchs we drew | C |
| Must be heard but by night in our vengeful haloo | D |
| Then haloo Grigalach haloo Grigalach | B |
| Haloo haloo haloo Grigalach | B |
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| Glen Orchy's proud mountains Coalchuirn and her towers | E |
| Glenstrae and Glenlyon no longer are ours | E |
| We're landless landless landless Grigalach | B |
| Landless landless landless Grigalach | B |
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| But doom'd and devoted by vassal and lord | F |
| MacGregor has still both his heart and his sword | F |
| Then courage courage courage Grigalach | B |
| Courage courage courage Grigalach | B |
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| If they rob us of name and pursue us with beagles | G |
| Give their roofs to the flame and their flesh to the eagles | G |
| Then vengeance vengeance vengeance Grigalach | B |
| Vengeance vengeance vengeance Grigalach | B |
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| While there's leaves in the forest and foam on the river | H |
| MacGregor despite them shall flourish for ever | H |
| Come then Grigalach come then Grigalach | B |
| Come then come then come then Grigalach | B |
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| Through the depths of Loch Katrine the steed shall career | I |
| O'er the peak of Ben Lomond the galley shall steer | I |
| The rocks of Craig Royston like icicles melt | J |
| Ere our wrongs be forgot or our vengeance unfelt | J |
| Then gather gather gather Grigalach | B |
| Gather gather gather Grigalach | B |
Sir Walter Scott
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