coronach

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Come, pipes, sound A crooning coronach round, Till hill and hollow glen and shadowed lake o’erflow With welling music of our woe.

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On one grave a young woman was rocking herself to and fro, wailing with a sound like the Highland coronach, but longer and more despairing.

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Then a pause, and anon the coronach or wail for the dead.

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It were pity to deny my delicate cousin the luxury of a coronach over the swollen corpse of her minion!’

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The open door will invite them into the sanctuary of peace, and they will croon the coronach of their woe in the holy place.

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