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A storm was brewing over the
mountains
the darkened clouds were drifting near
Brilliant lighting was flashing
all around and across the darkening sky
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The thundering hoofs of the great horse
and the rider in black one could hear
With arched neck and flying mane,
the great stallion had blood in his eye
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This rider with flaming eyes thundering across
the sky on this storming night
His long flaming red hair showing beneath
the wide brimmed hat so black
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The deathly white skin showing from
his face and neck was a frightening sight
This is the rider in the legend that was
murdered near his mountain shack
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This reckless young man of old was known
and liked by just about everyone
His love for a young maiden who lived in
the valley some distance away
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This lady so beautiful, his thoughts
running wild of this maiden he had won
Riding to his mountain cabin on this very dark;
stormy and windy day
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A sudden shot rang out and the
horse and rider started to fall off a cliff so
tall
The horse and rider were never found
the raging river below made it so
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The beautiful maiden thought on that night
she heard her lover's dying call
She felt a feeling of dread and loneliness that
no one would ever know
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The love that she shared with this reckless,
dashing and handsome young man
To live without her man was
a life that she could not live, not at all
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The maiden too died in her heart that very
night and never to love another man
On stormy nights she would sit;
waiting for her man in black to call
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©Dale L. Neill
July 8, 2004
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