Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Dunmore | | The Maid of Dunmore | | Anonymous |
| | | A CAPTIVE maid pined in the tower of Dunmore. | |
| Full high was its gate, closely barred was the door. | |
| Her sighs unregarded, her prison unknown, | |
| Far from kinsmen and lover she languished alone. | |
| But a little bird sang at this fair captive’s grate, | 5 |
| And seemed, as it chirruped, to soften her fate. | |
| Ah! Flora, fair Flora,—ah! Flora Macdonald! | |
| Ah! Flora, the maid of Dunmore,— | |
| The maid of Dunmore, the maid of Dunmore, | |
| Ah! weep for the maid, the maid of Dunmore! | 10 |
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| The maid tied a note to this little bird’s neck, | |
| And pointed to home, like a far distant speck. | |
| O’er land and o’er water away the bird flew, | |
| Sought kinsman and lover;—the courier they knew; | |
| But soon a brave knight burst the prison-house door, | 15 |
| And rescued his bride from the tower of Dunmore. | |
| Ah! Flora, fair Flora,—ah! Flora Macdonald! | |
| Ah! Flora, the maid of Dunmore,— | |
| The maid of Dunmore, the maid of Dunmore, | |
| Ah! joy to the maid, the maid of Dunmore! | 20 | | | |
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