Quote #12

'Now who be ye would cross Lochgyle, This dark and stormy water?' 'O I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this, Lord Ullin's daughter.

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  1. A chieftain to the Highlands bound Cries, 'Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row us o'er the ferry!'
  2. 'Come back! come back!' he cried in grief 'Across this stormy water; And I'll forgive your Highland chief, My daughter! O my daughter!'
  3. Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the gr…
  4. 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
  5. Oh! once the harp of Innisfail Was strung full high to notes of gladness; But yet it often told a tale Of more prevailing sadness.
  6. Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked-as Kosciusko fell!
  7. A stoic of the woods-a man without a tear.
  8. Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?

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