coronach
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Come, pipes, sound A crooning coronach round, Till hill and hollow glen and shadowed lake o’erflow With welling music of our woe.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
There more than once in what remained of the night, he woke, fancying he heard the ghost-music sounding its coronach over the dead below.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
The venerable figure clasped his hands, and in a voice of mournful solemnity exclaimed: "Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach?"
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
The open door will invite them into the sanctuary of peace, and they will croon the coronach of their woe in the holy place.
From The Great Discovery by Norman Maclean
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