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As on the wondering youth she smiled.

Like music from the greenwood tree,

Again she raised the melting lay;

“Fair Warrior, wilt thou dwell with me,

And leave the Maid of Colonsay?

“Fair is the crystal hall for me,

With rubies and with emeralds set,

And sweet the music of the sea

Shall sing, when we for love are met.

“How sweet to dance, with gliding feet,

Along the level tide so green,

Responsive to the cadence sweet,

That breathes along the moonlight scene!

“And soft the music of the main

Rings from the motley tortoise-shell,

While moonbeams, o’er the watery plain,

Seem trembling in its fitful swell.

“Through the green meads beneath the sea,

Enamoured, we shall fondly stray—

Then, gentle warrior, dwell with me,

And leave the Maid of Colonsay!”—

“Though bright thy locks of glistening gold,

Fair maiden of the foamy main!

Thy life-blood is the water cold,

While mine beats high in every vein.

“Though all the splendour of the sea

Around thy faultless beauty shine,

That heart, that riots wild and free,