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THE SKY-LARK.
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DEATH SONG OF THE INDIAN.
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The sua sets in night, and the stars shun the
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day, But glo - ry remains when their lights fade
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away. Be -gin, ye tormenters, your threats are in
ifpjg g^Egg iilli
vain, For the son of Alknomook shall never complain.
Remember the arrows he shot from his bow.
Remember your chiefs by his hatchet laid low.
Why so slow ? — Do you wait till I shrink from the pain?
No! — the son of Alknomook shall never complain.
Remember the wood where in ambush we lay,
And the scalps which we bore from your nation away
Now the flame rises fast, they exult in my pain,
But the son of Alknomook can never complain.
I go to the land that my father is gone,
His ghost shall rejoice in the fame of his son.
Death comes as a friend — he relieves me from pain,
And the son of Alknomook has scorn'd to complain!
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145
DEATH SONG OF THE INDIAN.
£
S
£
|=E3
The sua sets in night, and the stars shun the
1
i£=SEEi
1
£
2Z3!
day, But glo - ry remains when their lights fade
S
&1
?*=*
away. Be -gin, ye tormenters, your threats are in
ifpjg g^Egg iilli
vain, For the son of Alknomook shall never complain.
Remember the arrows he shot from his bow.
Remember your chiefs by his hatchet laid low.
Why so slow ? — Do you wait till I shrink from the pain?
No! — the son of Alknomook shall never complain.
Remember the wood where in ambush we lay,
And the scalps which we bore from your nation away
Now the flame rises fast, they exult in my pain,
But the son of Alknomook can never complain.
I go to the land that my father is gone,
His ghost shall rejoice in the fame of his son.
Death comes as a friend — he relieves me from pain,
And the son of Alknomook has scorn'd to complain!
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Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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