Lochnagar
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- D G
1. Away ye gay
landscapes, ye gardens of roses,
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in you let the minions of luxury rove.
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Em - D G
Restore me the rock, where the
snowflake reposes
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G
if still they are sacred to freedom and
love.
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Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains,
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round their white summits tho` elements roar,
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tho` cataracts foam, `stead
of smooth-flowing fountains,
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I sigh for the valley of dark Lochnagar.
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2.
Ah, there my young footsteps in infan
- cy wander`d,
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D
my cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the
plaid.
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D G
On chieftains departed my memo -
ry ponder`d,
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as daily I stray`d thro` the pine-cover`d
glade.
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I sought not my home till the day`s dying
glory,
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D
gave place to the rays of the bright polar
star,
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D - C
for fancy was cheer`d by traditional
story,
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disclos`d by the
natives of dark Lochnagar.
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- D G
3.
Oh, shades of the dead, have I not heard
your voices,
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D
rise on the night-rolling breath of the
gale?
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And surely the soul
of the hero rejoices,
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and rides on the wind o`er his own
Highland vale.
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Round Lochnagar, while the stormy mist
gathers,
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winter presides in his old icy car;
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D - C
the clouds there encircle
the forms of my fathers,
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they dwell `mid the
tempests of dark Lochnagar.
(Lord Byron)