He stole poor Blanche’s heart away!

His coat it was all of the greenwood hue,

And so blithely he trill’d the Lowland lay!

“It was not that I meant to tell ...

But thou art wise, and guessest well.”

Then, in a low and broken tone,

And hurried note, the song went on.

Still on the Clansman, fearfully,

She fixed her apprehensive eye;

Then turn’d it on the Knight, and then