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MERRILY, MERRILY GOES THE BARK.

From "The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, written by Sir Walter Scott. Music by Mazzinghi.

Merrily, merrily goes the bark,
⁠Before the gale she bounds,
So darts the dolphin from the shark,
⁠Or the deer before the hounds
They left Loch Tua on their lee,
And they wakened the men of wild Tiree,
⁠And the chief of the sandy Coll.
They paused not at Columba's Isle,
Though pealed the bells at the hoary pile,
⁠With long and measured toll.
No time for matin or for mass,
And the sounds of the holy summons pass
⁠Away to the billow's roll.