A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
1 A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.
2 There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.
3 But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
4 In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach .
5 Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.
6 Bruce ordered his bards to raise the sad coronach , and the march commenced toward the open tent that canopied the sacred remains.
7 At the grave, the orator, or senachie, pronounced the panegyric of the defunct, every period being confirmed by a yell of the coronach .
8 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.
9 There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach , and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.
10 "Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach ? "
11 "In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach .
12 A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.
13 There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.
14 But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
15 In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach .
16 Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.
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