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To wander alone by the wind beaten hill

But the day-star attracted his eyes sad devotion, For it rose our his own native isle of the Occan – When once in the five of his youthful emotion He sung the bold anthem of Evin go bragh.

" Sad is my fate said the heart-brishen stranger). The wild deer & wolf to a covert can flee But I have no refug: from famine & langer

A home and a Country remain not to me__

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In dreams I revisit thy sea-braten shore..

But alas in a far-foreign land I awaken

And sigh for the friends who can meet me no more

Oh my sad fate wilt thou never

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Yet all its food collection suppressing,

One dying with my love bosom shall draw;

Evin an Exile bequeaths thee his blessing Land of my forefathers Erings-bragh!.

Buried & cold when my heart stills her motion,

Green be thy fields sweetest isle of the

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By strangers lift upon a lonely shore
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But child to weep or widow to deplore

There

never came to his unburied head _

All from his cheerless habitation fled.

Nor will the Canthein'd fisherman at eve,

Launch on that beater by the Witche's lower, When hellebore & hemlock seem to weave Round its daik vaults a melancholy bower, For Spirits of the dead at night; era handed

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