This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...summer-time drew nigh, With masts and sails of snow-white sheen! How often seen when gazing round From thy tall towers, the hunting trains The blood-enlivening chase, the horseman and the hound, Thou fastness of a hundred plains! How often to thy banquet bright We have seen the strong-armed Gaels repair, And ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...summer-time drew nigh, With masts and sails of snow-white sheen! How often seen when gazing round From thy tall towers, the hunting trains The blood-enlivening chase, the horseman and the hound, Thou fastness of a hundred plains! How often to thy banquet bright We have seen the strong-armed Gaels repair, And when the feast was over, once again unite For battle, in thy basscourt fair! Alas for thee, thou fort forlorn; Alas for thy low, lost estate: It is my woe of woes, this melancholy morn To see thee left thus desolate. O there hath come of Connell's race A many and many a gallant chief Who, if he saw thee now, thou of the once glad face, Could not dissemble his deep grief. Could Manus of the lofty soul Behold thee as this day thou art, Thou of the regal towers! vhat bitter, bitter dole What agony would rend his heart! Could Hugh MacHugh's imaginings Portray for him the rueful plight, What anguish, O thou palace of the northern kings! Were his, thro' many a sleepless night. Could even the mighty prince whose choice 'Twas to o'erthrow thee, could Hugh Roe But view thee now, methinks, he would not much rejoice That he had laid thy turrets low. Oh, who could dream that one like him, One sprung of such a line as his, Thou of the embellished walls! would be the man to dim Thy glories by a deed like this? From Hugh O'Donnell, thine own brave And far-famed sovereign, came the blow; By him, thou lonesome castle o'er the Esky's wave! By him was wrought thine overthrow. Yet not because he wished thee ill, Left he thee thus bereaven and void: The prince of the victorious tribe of Dalach still Loved thee, yea, thee whom he destroyed. He brought upon thee all this woe, Thou of the fair-proportioned walls! Lest thou shouldst ever yield a shelter to the foe, ..
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