And shot his dark flight o’er Moray’s fair fields;
And Findhorn’s wild echoes were heard to ring
As Dane and Scot met in mortal toil,—
And cruel and fierce was the battle tide
That raged on rocky Findhorn’s side;
And his golden beams a bright glory shed
Around each dying hero’s head,
And lighted his soul with a cheering ray,
E’er his dim eye closed on the parting day.
But Findhorn’s dark heights, and his wizzard wave,
Were lighted anon by far fiercer rays,
And now, as afar o’er the plains they look,
Red ruin enwraps both tower and town,
And wild Norsemen’s shouts reach the beacon Doun;
Till each Scottish breast to revenge is strung.
’Tis Fergus the King! The broad signal fire,
And, see how his clustering horsemen sweep
From the forest dark and the dingle deep!
And, hark to the tread of the many feet
That crowd to those heights where the waters meet!
Full little does Sewyn, the Norse King, know,
As his ruthless Danes rifle the peaceful plain,
Of far other mould than the shepherd swain.
Than shepherds may feed, lie hid by these rocks.
The current was rapid, the stream was deep,
As horsemen and foot, from the shore so steep,
Through the Dhuie in thick confusion dashed.
But scarce were they rid of the rushing tide,
Nor yet had they formed on the meadow’s side,
When by bursting yells the skies were rent,
Came King Fergus’ force on King Sewyn’s power.
And wide with the eagle’s scream rang the glen,
As eager she snuffed up her feast so near;
And each Norseman’s heart, though ne’er so bold,
With panic-dread grew sick and cold,
But fled away like some startled flock,
When the howl of the gaunt mountain wolves they hear.
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That the Moray-men took of their Danish foes;
But yet deeper revenge did Findhorn reap
As high, in his anger, his billows rose.
For he had wailed that his wave before
The dye of his children’s life’s-blood bore;
He reared him aloft, shook his oak-crowned head,
And, roaring with fearful revelry,
He swept off his spoils to his kindred sea.
That on Loch-an-Dorbe’s dark breast doth float?
And why lights her eye with a radiant smile
As the moonbeam falls soft on that little boat?
A fairy thing it seems to be,
And like such sprites of witching power
It vanished beneath a shadowy tower,
As its slender side lost the moonbeam’s ray,
Nor left it one trace of its liquid way.
Scanned that little boat with no idle gaze;
And I ween that her eyes with their radiant smile
Had hope blent with love in their glowing rays.
Malvina she was that maiden fair,
King Fergus’ daughter, who sat her there.
She’s gone!—and her pulse may hardly beat,
As in silence move her trembling feet
And wastes the night in despairing sighs,
The son of King Sewyn in battle ta’en,
She unlocked the bolts with a master key,
“Love favours our flight!” softly whispered she,
“At the postern stairs doth the boat abide.”
Then they stole away by the shadowy wall.
Yet she sighed to quit her father’s hall,
And she clung to his arm as the little boat
Did o’er the wide lake in silence float.
’Twas a right trusty page that gave them way,
And he landed them ’neath the greenwood tree,
Where tied to the oak was a courser grey;
Prince Harrold to saddle sprang merrily.
The fair Malvina behind him placed,
With snow-white arms her lover embraced.
The sun rose to welcome the bonny bride,
As they fled them straight to the Findhorn’s side;
And drove them for refuge to Dulsie’s height.
“Go, bring me Prince Harrold,” King Fergus cried,
His royal eyes sparkling with beams of joy,
“My daughter Malvina shall be his bride,
And Moray be freed from the Dane’s annoy.
And peace shall their bridal knot cement.”
But Harrold was gone and Malvina fair!
Yet a sharp-witted page could teach him where,
Such glad tidings, I ween, as made him bold.
“To boat!” cried King Fergus, with eager haste,
And—“To horse!” when he touched the farther shore,
And furious he spurred through the forest waste,
As to Findhorn’s stream his swift course he bore.
The lovers from Dulsie’s wooded height
Saw Moray’s lord coming in kingly might.
Than captive be torn from his bonny bride.
Harrold lifted Malvina to saddle again,
And down Dulsie’s slope urged his steed amain.
But louder yet did the water-fiends yell,
Rebellious61 they laughed at his empty sway,
And the sire’s despairing cry was vain,
“Malvina! my child! oh, turn again!” [72]
But the lovers, twined on the courser grey,
Were swept from his outstretchd eyes away,
As adown the big stream he sought the pair.
At yon cairn on flowery Ferness holm?
Why scans he yon pillar, so rough and grey,
’Twas there the love-twined youth and maid,
Unsevered in death, were sadly laid;
And there did King Fergus and Sewyn weep
When they found them locked in death’s cold sleep,
And Findhorn still lingers around their grave,
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