StoryTitle("caps", "Lord Ullin's Daughter") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A chieftain, to the Highlands bound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cries, \"Boatman, do not tarry!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I'll give thee a silver pound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To row us o'er the ferry.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Now who be ye, would cross Lochgyle,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This dark and stormy water?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"O, I'm the chief of Ulva's isle,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And this Lord Ullin's daughter.", "") ?>
PagePoem(106, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"And fast before her father's men", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Three days we've fled together,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For should he find us in the glen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My blood would stain the heather.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"His horsemen hard behind us ride;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Should they our steps discover,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then who will cheer my bonny bride", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When they have slain her lover?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Outspoke the hardy Highland wight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"I'll go, my chief—I'm ready;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is not for your silver bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But for your winsome lady:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"And by my word! the bonny bird", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In danger shall not tarry;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So though the waves are raging white,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll row you o'er the ferry.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By this the storm grew loud apace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The water-wraith was shrieking;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the scowl of heaven each face", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Grew dark as they were speaking.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But still as wilder blew the wind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And as the night grew drearer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adown the glen rode armèd men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their trampling sounded nearer.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"O haste thee, haste!\" the lady cries,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"Though tempests round us gather;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll meet the raging of the skies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But not an angry father.\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(107, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The boat has left a stormy land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A stormy sea before her,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, oh! too strong for human hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The tempest gathered o'er her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And still they row'd amid the roar", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of waters fast prevailing:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lord Ullin reach'd that fatal shore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His wrath was changed to wailing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For sore dismay'd through storm and shade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His child he did discover:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One lovely hand she stretch'd for aid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And one was round her lover.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Come back! come back!\" he cried in grief,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"Across this stormy water:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I'll forgive your Highland chief,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My daughter!—oh my daughter!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Twas vain the loud waves lashed the shore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Return or aid preventing;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The waters wild went o'er his child,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And he was left lamenting.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Thomas Campbell.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>