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Thread #150785 Message #3517534
Posted By: Gutcher
21-May-13 - 07:34 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)
Subject: RE: Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)
Someone trying their hand at composing a ballad??--printed in 1835.
LORD LOVAT.-- The Frazers, lords Lovat in the Ross/Inverness area of Scotland and referring to the Crusades.
[1] Lord Lovat left the wars,
Beneath the halie cross,
To seek the weel-kent braes and scaurs,
And the bonnie woods o" Ross.
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[5] Lord Lovat"s step was first
When Ascalon was won;
Lord Lovat"s lance, the foremost burst
Jerusalem"s wa"s upon.
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[36] But nae Lord Lovat cam",
Though twice the gathering cry
From thousands rose the hills amang,
In thunder to the sky.
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[39] Stretched on the altar steps, below
The cross, as if to pray,
And white upon his sunburnt brow,
The drifted cranreuch lay.