The Book of Scottish Song/The Maid of Glenconnel

The Maid of Glenconnel.

[Munro.—Air by the Earl of Eglinton.]

The pearl of the fountain, the rose of the valley,
⁠Are sparkling and lovely, are stainless and mild;
The pearl sheds its ray 'neath the dark water gaily,
⁠The rose opes its blossoms to bloom on the wild.
The pearl and the rose are the emblems of Mary,
⁠The maid of Glenconnel, once lovely and gay;
A false lover woo'd her—ye damsels be wary—
⁠Now scathed is the blossom, now dimm'd is the ray.

You have seen her, when morn brightly dawn'd on the mountain,
⁠Trip blythely along, singing sweet to the gale;
At noon, with her lambs, by the side of yon fountain;
⁠Or wending, at eve, to her home in the vale.
With the flowers of the willow-tree blent is her tresses,
⁠Now, woe-worn and pale, in the glen she is seen
Bewailing the cause of her rueful distresses,—
⁠How fondly he vow'd—and how false he has been.

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