| The morning was fair, the sky’s were clear
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| No breath came over the sea
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| When Mare left her highland home
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| And wandered forth with me
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| Though flowere decked the mountain side
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| And fragrance filled the vale
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| By far the sweetest flower there
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| Was the rose of Allendale
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| Was the rose of Allendale
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| Was the rose of Allendale
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| By far the sweetest flower there
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| Was the rose of Allendale
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| Where’er I wandered east or west
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| Tho’faith began to lour
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| A solace still she was to me
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| In sorrow’s lonely hour
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| When tempest lashed our lonely barque
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| And rent her shivring sail
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| One maiden form withstood the storm
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| 'Twas the rose of Allendale
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| And when my fever’d lips were parched
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| On Afrie’s burning sands
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| She whispered hopes of happiness
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| And tales of distant lands
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| My life has been a wilderness
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| Unbiest by fortune’s gale
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| Had faith not linked my lot to hers
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| The rose of Allendale |