coronach

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“Na, na, Strathspeys, laddie; but if she tuked a holt o’ the pipes the noo it wad pe a coronach she’d blaw.”

From Steve Young by Fenn, George Manville

Oh! set the bridal feast aside, And bear the harp away; The coronach must sound instead, From solemn kirk-yard gray.

From Indian Legends and Other Poems by Horsford, Mary Gardiner

In every house there would be a crying of the death wail—the coronach of sorrow.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Scott, Walter, Sir

To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

And the mermen swam fast to be with her, and ceased from their own song, for the wind sang a coronach in the canvas and cordage.

From The Field of Clover by Housman, Laurence