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thy friendly floor Slieve-Donard's oak shall light no more 5 Nor Owen's harp, beside the blaze,. Tell maiden's love, or hero's praise ! The mantling brambles hide thy hearth, Centre of hospitable mirth ; » [See Appendix, Note N.] 2 [MS. « to sympathy/^ > [See Appendix, Note O.] Digitized by VjOOQIC Canto V. KOKEBT. 219 All undistingoiBli'd in the glade. My sires' glad home is prostrate laid. Their vassals wander wide and far, Serve foreign lords in distant war, And now the stranger's sons enjoy... The lovely woods of Clandeboyl" He spoke, and proudly tuin'd aside. The starting tear to dry and hide. XL Matilda's dark and soften'd eye Was glistening ere O'Neale's was dry. Her hand upon his arm she laid, — " It is the will of heaven," she said. *' And think'st thou, Redmond, I can part From this loved home with lightsome heart. Leaving to wild neglect whatever Even from my infancy was dear ? For in this calm domestic bound Were all Matilda's pleasures found. That hearth, my sire was wont to grace.
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