| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Song: ‘Where shall the lover rest’ | | By Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | | WHERE 1 shall the lover rest, | |
| Whom the fates sever | |
| From his true maiden’s breast, | |
| Parted forever? | |
| Where, through groves deep and high, | 5 |
| Sounds the far billow, | |
| Where early violets die, | |
| Under the willow. | |
| Eleu loro, | |
| Soft shall be his pillow. | 10 |
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| There, through the summer day, | |
| Cool streams are laving; | |
| There, while the tempests sway, | |
| Scarce are boughs waving; | |
| There thy rest shalt thou take, | 15 |
| Parted forever, | |
| Never again to wake, | |
| Never, O never! | |
| Eleu loro, | |
| Never, O never! | 20 |
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| Where shall the traitor rest, | |
| He the deceiver, | |
| Who could win maiden’s breast, | |
| Ruin and leave her? | |
| In the lost battle, | 25 |
| Borne down by the flying, | |
| Where mingles war’s rattle | |
| With groans of the dying. | |
| Eleu loro, | |
| There shall he be lying. | 30 |
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| Her wing shall the eagle flap | |
| O’er the false-hearted; | |
| His warm blood the wolf shall lap, | |
| Ere life be parted. | |
| Shame and dishonour sit | 35 |
| By his grave ever; | |
| Blessing shall hallow it,— | |
| Never, O never! | |
| Eleu loro, | |
| Never, O never! | 40 |
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