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I	A
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new	B
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears	C
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew	B
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears	D
O wilding rose whom fancy thus endears	D
I bid your blossoms in my bonnet wave	E
Emblem of hope and love through future years '	F
Thus spoke young Norman heir of Armandave	E
What time the sun arose on Vennachar's broad wave	E
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II	A
Such fond conceit half said half sung	G
Love prompted to the bridegroom's tongue	G
All while he stripped the wild rose spray	H
His axe and bow beside him lay	H
For on a pass 'twixt lake and wood	I
A wakeful sentinel he stood	I
Hark on the rock a footstep rung	G
And instant to his arms he sprung	G
'Stand or thou diest What Malise soon	J
Art thou returned from Braes of Doune	J
By thy keen step and glance I know	J
Thou bring'st us tidings of the foe '	-
For while the Fiery Cross tried on	J
On distant scout had Malise gone	J
'Where sleeps the Chief ' the henchman said	K
'Apart in yonder misty glade	L
To his lone couch I'll be your guide '	-
Then called a slumberer by his side	M
And stirred him with his slackened bow	N
'Up up Glentarkin rouse thee ho	J
We seek the Chieftain on the track	O
Keep eagle watch till I come back '	-
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III	A
Together up the pass they sped	K
'What of the foeman ' Norman said	K
'Varying reports from near and far	P
This certain that a band of war	Q
Has for two days been ready boune	J
At prompt command to march from Doune	J
King James the while with princely powers	D
Holds revelry in Stirling towers	D
Soon will this dark and gathering cloud	R
Speak on our glens in thunder loud	R
Inured to bide such bitter bout	S
The warrior's plaid may bear it out	S
But Norman how wilt thou provide	M
A shelter for thy bonny bride ''	-
'What know ye not that Roderick's care	T
To the lone isle hath caused repair	T
Each maid and matron of the clan	J
And every child and aged man	J
Unfit for arms and given his charge	U
Nor skiff nor shallop boat nor barge	U
Upon these lakes shall float at large	U
But all beside the islet moor	V
That such dear pledge may rest secure '	-
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IV	E
''Tis well advised the Chieftain's plan	J
Bespeaks the father of his clan	J
But wherefore sleeps Sir Roderick Dhu	J
Apart from all his followers true '	-
'It is because last evening tide	M
Brian an augury hath tried	M
Of that dread kind which must not be	W
Unless in dread extremity	W
The Taghairm called by which afar	P
Our sires foresaw the events of war	Q
Duncraggan's milk white bull they slew '	-
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Malise	D
'Ah well the gallant brute I knew	J
The choicest of the prey we had	X
When swept our merrymen Gallangad	X
His hide was snow his horns were dark	Y
His red eye glowed like fiery spark	Y
So fierce so tameless and so fleet	X
Sore did he cumber our retreat	X
And kept our stoutest kerns in awe	Z
Even at the pass of Beal 'maha	J
But steep and flinty was the road	X
And sharp the hurrying pikeman's goad	X
And when we came to Dennan's Row	J
A child might scathless stroke his brow	N
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V	W
Norman	J
'That bull was slain his reeking hide	X
They stretched the cataract beside	X
Whose waters their wild tumult toss	D
Adown the black and craggy boss	D
Of that huge cliff whose ample verge	A2
Tradition calls the Hero's Targe	A2
Couched on a shelf beneath its brink	B2
Close where the thundering torrents sink	B2
Rocking beneath their headlong sway	H
And drizzled by the ceaseless spray	H
Midst groan of rock and roar of stream	C2
The wizard waits prophetic dream	C2
Nor distant rests the Chief but hush	D2
See gliding slow through mist and bush	E2
The hermit gains yon rock and stands	D
To gaze upon our slumbering bands	D
Seems he not Malise dike a ghost	X
That hovers o'er a slaughtered host	X
Or raven on the blasted oak	F2
That watching while the deer is broke	F2
His morsel claims with sullen croak '	-
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Malise	D
'Peace peace to other than to me	W
Thy words were evil augury	H
But still I hold Sir Roderick's blade	X
Clan Alpine's omen and her aid	X
Not aught that gleaned from heaven or hell	G2
Yon fiend begotten Monk can tell	G2
The Chieftain joins him see and now	N
Together they descend the brow '	-
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VI	E
And as they came with Alpine's Lord	X
The Hermit Monk held solemn word	X
'Roderick it is a fearful strife	E
For man endowed with mortal life	E
Whose shroud of sentient clay can still	H2
Feel feverish pang and fainting chill	H2
Whose eye can stare in stony trance	D
Whose hair can rouse like warrior's lance	D
'Tis hard for such to view unfurled	X
The curtain of the future world	X
Yet witness every quaking limb	I2
My sunken pulse mine eyeballs dim	I2
My soul with harrowing anguish torn	J
This for my Chieftain have I borne	J
The shapes that sought my fearful couch	J2
A human tongue may ne'er avouch	J2
No mortal man save he who bred	X
Between the living and the dead	X
Is gifted beyond nature's law	K2
Had e'er survived to say he saw	K2
At length the fateful answer came	L2
In characters of living flame	L2
Not spoke in word nor blazed in scroll	M2
But borne and branded on my soul	M2
WHICH SPILLS THE FOREMOST FOEMAN'S LIFE	E
THAT PARTY CONQUERS IN THE STRIFE '	-
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VII	E
'Thanks Brian for thy zeal and care	H
Good is thine augury and fair	H
Clan Alpine ne'er in battle stood	X
But first our broadswords tasted blood	X
A surer victim still I know	J
Self offered to the auspicious blow	J
A spy has sought my land this morn	J
No eve shall witness his return	J
My followers guard each pass's mouth	N2
To east to westward and to south	N2
Red Murdoch bribed to be his guide	X
Has charge to lead his steps aside	X
Till in deep path or dingle brown	J
He light on those shall bring him clown	J
But see who comes his news to show	J
Malise what tidings of the foe '	-
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VIII	E
'At Doune o'er many a spear and glaive	E
Two Barons proud their banners wave	E
I saw the Moray's silver star	H
And marked the sable pale of Mar '	-
'By Alpine's soul high tidings those	D
I love to hear of worthy foes	D
When move they on ' 'To morrow's noon	J
Will see them here for battle boune '	-
'Then shall it see a meeting stern	J
But for the place say couldst thou learn	J
Nought of the friendly clans of Earn	J
Strengthened by them we well might bide	X
The battle on Benledi's side	X
Thou couldst not well Clan Alpine's men	J
Shall man the Trosachs' shaggy glen	J
Within Loch Katrine's gorge we'll fight	X
All in our maids' and matrons' sight	X
Each for his hearth and household fire	H
Father for child and son for sire Lover	H
for maid beloved But why	E
Is it the breeze affects mine eye	E
Or dost thou come ill omened tear	H
A messenger of doubt or fear	H
No sooner may the Saxon lance	D
Unfix Benledi from his stance	D
Than doubt or terror can pierce through	H
The unyielding heart of Roderick Dhu	J
'tis stubborn as his trusty targe	A2
Each to his post all know their charge '	-
The pibroch sounds the bands advance	D
The broadswords gleam the banners dance'	D
Obedient to the Chieftain's glance	D
I turn me from the martial roar	H
And seek Coir Uriskin once more	H
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IX	D
Where is the Douglas he is gone	J
And Ellen sits on the gray stone	J
Fast by the cave and makes her moan	J
While vainly Allan's words of cheer	H
Are poured on her unheeding ear	H
'He will return dear lady trust	X
With joy return he will he must	X
Well was it time to seek afar	H
Some refuge from impending war	H
When e'en Clan Alpine's rugged swarm	O2
Are cowed by the approaching storm	O2
I saw their boats with many a light	X
Floating the livelong yesternight	X
Shifting like flashes darted forth	P2
By the red streamers of the north	P2
I marked at morn how close they ride	X
Thick moored by the lone islet's side	X
Like wild ducks couching in the fen	J
When stoops the hawk upon the glen	J
Since this rude race dare not abide	X
The peril on the mainland side	X
Shall not thy noble father's care	H
Some safe retreat for thee prepare '	-
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X	D
Ellen	J
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'No Allan no ' Pretext so kind	X
My wakeful terrors could not blind	X
When in such tender tone yet grave	E
Douglas a parting blessing gave	E
The tear th	Q2