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A SONG OF LOCH CANDER.
This, to my taste, almost perfect specimen of a small secluded Highland loch, is situated at the head of Glen Callater, about three miles above the spot whence the ascent is generally made to Loch-na-Gar.
Round the rim of dark Loch Cander,
Rock-fenced from every gale,
An old and plaided man did wander,
And thus he poured his wail.
O lonely, lonely dark Loch Cander,
More lonely none may be;
But lonely to my grave I wander,
Most like on Earth to thee!
O lonely, lonely loch!
Rock-fenced from every gale,
An old and plaided man did wander,
And thus he poured his wail.
O lonely, lonely dark Loch Cander,
More lonely none may be;
But lonely to my grave I wander,
Most like on Earth to thee!
O lonely, lonely loch!
O lonely, lonely dark Loch Cander,
When I was young and free,
Full many a lusty friend did wander
Round thy sharp rim with me!
But o'er the glen there swept a storm,
And none to stand was free;
The strongest held the one big farm,
The rest sailed o'er the sea.
O lonely, lonely loch!
When I was young and free,
Full many a lusty friend did wander
Round thy sharp rim with me!
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And none to stand was free;
The strongest held the one big farm,
The rest sailed o'er the sea.
O lonely, lonely loch!
O lonely, lonely dark Loch Cander,
More lonely shalt thou be,
When even the sheep with lambkins tender
Thy crags no more shall see!
More few shall be true Highlandmen;
And soon the deer shall wander,
Sole tenant of the trackless glen,
In lonely dark Loch Cander.
O lonely, lonely loch!
More lonely shalt thou be,
When even the sheep with lambkins tender
Thy crags no more shall see!
More few shall be true Highlandmen;
And soon the deer shall wander,
Sole tenant of the trackless glen,
In lonely dark Loch Cander.
O lonely, lonely loch!
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