The Isles of Loch Awe and Other Poems of my Youth With Sixteen Illustrations. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton |
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The fairest island on the lake
Is the island of the nuns;
And I love it for the sake
Of those persecuted ones.
Is the island of the nuns;
And I love it for the sake
Of those persecuted ones.
Lonely now, and desolate,
Rise the hills of Inishail;
And a sea-gull and his mate
Round it daily do bewail.
Rise the hills of Inishail;
And a sea-gull and his mate
Round it daily do bewail.
Flying round it to and fro,
Making some unhappy search,
Round about the tombs they go,
Round about the ruined church.
Making some unhappy search,
Round about the tombs they go,
Round about the ruined church.
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