Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
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Eagerly she grasped the token,
Turning to the light away; Came again, and crying "Colin!" On the beggar's breast she lay. Spoke he sadly: "Hast thou truly Still the heart I loved? I know-- They have told me--that thou takest To thy love my deadly foe. "The gudewife, my foster mother, Unto whom I made me known When I reached the Orchy, told me How the rumour base had grown: "I was dead, or cared not for thee Who received no word of mine; 'Twas thy lover's doing, woman, Hungering for my wealth and thine! "'Take,' the gudewife said, 'a beggar's Old attire; and see the mist Where the wedding smoke is ordered By the lips which thou hast kissed.' "Thou hast put our ring together Can it be as one again?" Then she raised her face, and proudly Spoke unto her serving-men: |
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