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“Come back! Come back!” he cried in grief “Across this stormy water: And I’ll forgive your highland chief, My daughter!-O my daughter!”
Lord Ullin’s Daughter
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05/02/2021 7:02 pm
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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
“Come back! Come back!” he cried in grief
“Across this stormy water:
And I’ll forgive your highland chief,
My daughter!-O my daughter!”
Paraphrase: Lord Ullin cried in grief and asked his daughter to come back across the stormy water. He promised her that he would forgive her lover, the highland chief.
(a) Who cried in grief?
(b) What was the cause of his grief?
(c) What wrong had the highland chieftain done to Lord Ullin?
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05/02/2021 7:03 pm

(a) Lord Ullin cried in grief to see his daughter.
(b) His daughter’s tragic death which Lord Ullin was watching before his own eyes, was the cause of his grief.
(c) The Scottish chieftain had eloped with Lord Ullin’s beautiful daughter.
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