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A stoic of the woods-a man without a tear.
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Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
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.
Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind!
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…
Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save.
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!'
There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath, For a time.
'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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