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Do not lift him from the bracken	A
Leave him lying where he fell	B
Better bier ye cannot fashion	A
None beseems him half so well	B
As the bare and broken heather	C
And the hard and trampled sod	D
Whence his angry soul ascended	E
To the judgment seat of God	D
Winding sheet we cannot give him	F
Seek no mantle for the dead	G
Save the cold and spotless covering	H
Showered from heaven upon his head	G
Leave his broadsword as we found it	I
Bent and broken with the blow	J
That before he died avenged him	F
On the foremost of the foe	J
Leave the blood upon his bosom	K
Wash not off that sacred stain	L
Let it stiffen on the tartan	A
Let his wounds unclosed remain	L
Till the day when he shall show them	M
At the throne of God on high	N
When the murderer and the murdered	O
Meet before their Judge's eye	N
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Nay ye should not weep my children	A
Leave it to the faint and weak	P
Sobs are but a woman's weapon	A
Tears befit a maiden's cheek	P
Weep not children of Macdonald	Q
Weep not thou his orphan heir	R
Not in shame but stainless honour	R
Lies thy slaughtered father there	R
Weep not but when years are over	R
And thine arm is strong and sure	R
And thy foot is swift and steady	S
On the mountain and the muir	R
Let thy heart be hard as iron	T
And thy wrath as fierce as fire	R
Till the hour when vengeance cometh	U
For the race that slew thy sire	R
Till in deep and dark Glenlyon	T
Rise a louder shriek of woe	J
Than at midnight from their eyrie	S
Scared the eagles of Glencoe	P
Louder than the screams that mingled	Q
With the howling of the blast	V
When the murderer's steel was clashing	P
And the fires were rising fast	V
When thy noble father bounded	E
To the rescue of his men	T
And the slogan of our kindred	W
Pealed throughout the startled glen	T
When the herd of frantic women	T
Stumbled through the midnight snow	J
With their fathers' houses blazing	P
And their dearest dead below	J
Oh the horror of the tempest	X
As the flashing drift was blown	T
Crimsoned with the conflagration	T
And the roofs went thundering down	T
Oh the prayers the prayers and curses	Y
That together winged their flight	Z
From the maddened hearts of many	S
Through that long and woeful night	Z
Till the fires began to dwindle	A2
And the shots grew faint and few	B2
And we heard the foeman's challenge	C2
Only in a far halloo	A2
Till the silence once more settled	Q
O'er the gorges of the glen	T
Broken only by the Cona	T
Plunging through its naked den	T
Slowly from the mountain summit	D2
Was the drifting veil withdrawn	T
And the ghastly valley glimmered	D2
In the gray December dawn	T
Better had the morning never	R
Dawned upon our dark despair	R
Black amidst the common whiteness	E2
Rose the spectral ruins there	R
But the sight of these was nothing	P
More than wrings the wild dove's breast	D2
When she searches for her offspring	P
Round the relics of her nest	D2
For in many a spot the tartan	T
Peered above the wintry heap	F2
Marking where a dead Macdonald	D2
Lay within his frozen sleep	F2
Tremblingly we scooped the covering	P
From each kindred victim's head	D2
And the living lips were burning	P
On the cold ones of the dead	D2
And I left them with their dearest	D2
Dearest charge had everyone	T
Left the maiden with her lover	R
Left the mother with her son	T
I alone of all was mateless	E2
Far more wretched I than they	G2
For the snow would not discover	R
Where my lord and husband lay	G2
But I wandered up the valley	A2
Till I found him lying low	A2
With the gash upon his bosom	K
And the frown upon his brow	R
Till I found him lying murdered	D2
Where he wooed me long ago	A2
Woman's weakness shall not shame me	A2
Why should I have tears to shed	D2
Could I rain them down like water	R
O my hero on thy head	D2
Could the cry of lamentation	T
Wake thee from thy silent sleep	F2
Could it set thy heart a throbbing	P
It were mine to wail and weep	F2
But I will not waste my sorrow	A2
Lest the Campbell women say	G2
That the daughters of Clanranald	D2
Are as weak and frail as they	G2
I had wept thee hadst thou fallen	T
Like our fathers on thy shield	D2
When a host of English foemen	T
Camped upon a Scottish field	D2
I had mourned thee hadst thou perished	D2
With the foremost of his name	H2
When the valiant and the noble	A2
Died around the dauntless Gr me	A2
But I will not wrong thee husband	D2
With my unavailing cries	E2
Whilst thy cold and mangled body	A2
Stricken by the traitor lies	E2
Whilst he counts the gold and glory	A2
That this hideous night has won	T
And his heart is big with triumph	I2
At the murder he has done	T
Other eyes than mine shall glisten	T
Other hearts be rent in twain	T
Ere the heathbells on thy hillock	P
Wither in the autumn rain	T
Then I'll seek thee where thou sleepest	A2
And I'll veil my weary head	A2
Praying for a place beside thee	A2
Dearer than my bridal bed	A2
And I'll give thee tears my husband	A2
If the tears remain to me	A2
When the widows of the foemen	T
Cry the coronach for thee	A2

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

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