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Ah! wherefore lies my Salgar slain?
My brother bleeding here?

My Salgar murder'd, on the plain,
By one to me so near?

Friends of my choice! how lov'd were both!
Who now your fame shall raise?
Who sing my lover's plighted troth;
My brother's song of praise?

Of thousands lovely, Salgar's face
Was loveliest to the sight;
Renown'd my brother for the chace,
And terrible in fight.

Sons of my love! speak, once again-
Ah no!-to death a prey,
Silent they are, and must remain;
For cold their breasts of clay.

But are their fleeting spirits fled
Across the plain so soon?

Or shun the shadows of the dead,
The glimpses of the moon?

Speak, where on rock or mountain grave,
Still clash your souls of fire,

Or reconcil'd, in some dark cave
Your peaceful ghosts retire.

Ah! where her friends shall Colma find?
Hark-No-they're silent still-

No muttering anwer brings the wind;
No whisper o'er the hill.

Fearless, yet overwhelm'd with grief,
I sit all night in tears;
Hopeless of comfort or relief,

When morning light appears.

Yet, raise, ye friends of these, the dead;
On this sad spot their tomb;

But close not up their narrow bed,
Till hapless Colma come.

For why behind them should we stay,
Whose life is now a dream?
Together here our courses lay,

Beside the murmuring stream.

So shall my shivering ghost be seen,
Lamenting o'er the slain;
As homeward hies the hunter keen,
Benighted on the plain.

Yet shall he, fearless, pass along
And lend his listening ear,

For sweet, tho' sad, shall be my song,
For friends I lov'd so dear.

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For why behind them should we stay,
Whose life is now a dream?
Together here our courses lay,

Beside the murmuring stream.

So shall my shivering ghost be seen,
Lamenting o'er the slain;
As homeward hies the hunter keen,
Benighted on the plain.

Yet shall he, fearless, pass along
And lend his listening ear,

For sweet, tho' sad, shall be my song,
For friends I lov'd so dear.

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