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Poem by Henry Scott Riddell The Dowie Dens of Yarrow O SISTERS, there are midnight dreams That pass not with the morning, Then ask not why my reason swims In a brain so wildly burning. And ask not why I fancy how You wee bird sings wi’ sorrow, That bluid lies mingled with the dew, In the dowie dens o’ Yarrow. My dream’s wild light was not of night, Nor of the dulefu’ morning; Thrice on the stream was seen the gleam That seemed his sprite returning; For sword-girt men came down the glen An hour before the morrow, And pierced the heart aye true to mine, In the dowie dens o’ Yarrow. O, there are red red drops o’ dew Upon the wild-flower’s blossom, But they could na cool my burning brow, And shall not stain my bosom. But from the clouds o’ yon dark sky A cold cold shroud I ’ll borrow, And long and deep shall be my sleep In the dowie dens o’ Yarrow. Let my form the bluid-dyed floweret press By the heart o’ him that lo’ed me, And I ’ll steal frae his lips a long long kiss In the bower where aft he wooed me. For my arms shall fold and my tresses shield The form of my death-cold marrow, When the breeze shall bring the raven’s wing O’er the dowie dens o’ Yarrow. Henry Scott Riddell Poem Theme: Yarrow (Scotland) 1176 Views |
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