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THE MAID OF ULVA.
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The hyacinth bathed in the beauty of spring,The raven, when autumn hath darken'd his wing,
Were bluest and blackest, if either could vie
With the night of thy hair, or the morn of thine eye,—
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Fair maid of the mountain, whose home, far away,Looks down on the islands of Ulva's blue bay;
May nought from its Eden thy footsteps allure,
To grieve what is happy, or dim what is pure!
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Between us a foam-sheet impassable flows—The wrath and the hatred of clans who are foes;
But love, like the oak, while the tempest it braves,
The firmer will root it, the fiercer it raves.
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Not seldom thine eye from the watch-tower shall hail,In the red of the sunrise, the gleam of my sail;
And lone is the valley, and thick is the grove,
And green is the bower, that is sacred to love!
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The snows shall turn black on high Cruachan Ben,And the heath cease to purple fair Sonachan glen,
And the breakers to foam, as they dash on Tiree,
When the heart in this bosom beats faithless to thee!
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