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The cawing and dawing rises to a pitch, and then declines; the wood is silent, and it is suddenly night. The whortleberry bushes are almost as thick as the heather in places on the steep, rocky hills that overlook the Exe. Deep in the hollow the Exe winds and bends, finding a crooked way among the ruddy rocks.
"Down Deeside cam Inverey, Whistling and playing; He's lighted at Brackley gates At the day's dawing." And went on to tell of the murder of "bonnie Brackley" and of the treachery of his young wife: "There's grief in the kitchen, And mirth in the ha'; But the Baron o' Brackley Is dead and awa'."
They got on board before the morning, and so away into the boundless West.* In such cockboats did these old heroes brave the unknown seas. "Three lords sat drinking late yestreen, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in the dawing" Scotch Ballad.
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