...calmly regarding it. He is quite alone. There is no sound around him but the lapping of the waves. And ever as the year returns, The charm-bound sailors...still the Mermaid mourns The lovely chief of Colonsay. And is he listening now for the wild sound of her singing ? Or is he thinking of the brave Macphail...

...calmly regarding it. He is quite alone. There is no sound around him but the lapping of the waves. And ever as the year returns, The charm-bound sailors...still the Mermaid mourns The lovely chief of Colonsay. And is he listening now for the wild sound of her singing ? Or is he thinking of the brave Macphail...

...calmly regarding it. Ho is quite alone. There is 110 sound around him but the lapping of the waves. " And ever as the year returns, The charm-bound sailors know the day ; For sadly still the Mermaid mourus The lovely chief of Colonsay." And is he listening now for the wild sound of her siuging? Or...

...chieftain To hail t-he maid of Colousay. O sad the Mermaid's poy notes fell, And sa ily fink remote at nen! So sadly mourns the writhed shell Of Jura's shore, its parent sea. And ever as the ycnr returns, The cluinn-honnd puilora know the day \ For sadly Kt:ll the Mermaid mourns The lovely...

...mermaids sweet sea-soothing lay That charmed the dancing waves to sleep, Before the Bark of Colonsay. And ever as the year returns The charm-bound sailors...the mermaid mourns The lovely chief of Colonsay.'' Many other ballads celebrate the adventures of these seamaidens, who entice mariners into the sea,...

...o'er the moonlight bay, When light to land the chieftain sprung, To hail the maid of Colonsay. Oh ! sad the mermaid's gay notes fell, And sadly sink remote at sea ; So sadly mourns the wreathed shell Of Jura's shore, its parent sea. And ever as the year returns, The charm-bound sailors...

...o'er the moonlight bay, When light to land the chieftain sprung, TQ hail the Maid of Colonsay. Cbc O sad the mermaid's gay notes fell, And sadly sink remote at sea I So sadly mourns the writhed shell Of Jura's shore, its parent sea. And ever, as the year returns,...

...beautifully told by Leyden, the Scotch poet, in his pretty verses entitled, " The Maid of Colonsay." " And ever as the year returns, The charm-bound sailors...the mermaid mourns The lovely chief of Colonsay." Beside the mermaids there are the Tsar morskoi, or King of the Sea, and the Vodni muzh or man of the...

...thee.' And Colonsay — Leyden's Colonsay — the haunted island that mourns like a sea-shell — ' And ever as the year returns, The charm-bound sailors...the mermaid mourns The lovely chief of Colonsay.' Gala Water — " the old man continued, in a sort of exalted rhapsody ; and his eyes were absent, as...

...thee.' And Colonsay—Leyden's Colonsay—the haunted island that mourns like a sea-shell— ' Ami ever as the year returns^ The charm-bound sailors know the day; For sudly still the mermaid mourns The lovely chief of Colonsay.' Gala Water—" the old man continued,...