A rich collation spread in vain.

The banquet proud, the chamber gay,

Scarce drew one curious glance astray;

Or if she look’d, ’twas but to say,

With better omen dawn’d the day

In that lone isle, where waved on high

The dun deer’s hide for canopy;

Where oft her noble father shared

The simple meal her care prepared,

While Lufra, crouching by her side,