[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...
[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...
[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...
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THE BLOODY RAID.<br />
" Ha ! yonder comes my little page,<br />
And he has news to tell,<br />
And nimbly is he speeding on<br />
Adown the darkening fell<br />
quickly speed, my gallant page,<br />
I'll gladden thy young eye<br />
To tell me that my gallant lord<br />
"With his brave train are nigh."<br />
<strong>The</strong> little page has reached the gate.<br />
Nor sounds the porter 's call<br />
But, in his hot <strong>and</strong> hurrying haste,<br />
He nimbly climbs the wall<br />
" My lady," cries the breathless pag'e,<br />
" I've mournful news to tell,<br />
My lord <strong>and</strong> all his valiant b<strong>and</strong><br />
Before the Stewarts fell.<br />
'Twas dawn, <strong>and</strong> in the morning sky<br />
<strong>The</strong> gay lark piped her song.<br />
When by Loch Libo, in the glen,<br />
"We gaily rode along<br />
"We dreamed not <strong>of</strong> an ambuscade<br />
From cruel murdering foe.<br />
No ready lance was couched at rest,<br />
Unstrung was every bow.<br />
Thy gallant lord was in the van,<br />
"Upon his milk-^\hite steed.<br />
And over moor <strong>and</strong> hill <strong>and</strong> dell<br />
"We spurred along with speed ;<br />
And as we mounted green Craignaucht,<br />
"We heard a trumpet sound<br />
Two hundred <strong>of</strong> the Stewart clan<br />
Encompassed us around.<br />
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