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LORD WILLIAM.

No eye beheld when William plunged Young Edmund in the stream,No human ear but William's heard Young Edmund's drowning scream.
Submissive all the vassals own'd The murderer for their Lord,And he, the rightful heir, possessed The house of Erlingford.
The ancient house of Erlingford Stood midst a fair domain,And Severn's ample waters near Roll'd through the fertile plain.
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