Ochone

Ochone, ochone, our glory's o'er, stol'n by a mean deceiver (ruthless reiver),

The Highlander's Lament 1997

Ochone = a gaelic word meanin "Woe is me" gowd = gold hae = have wi 'a richt guid will = with a right goodwill

Will Ye Gang, Love 1997

"Ochone, ochone, he's gone, the strong one, and I mind me when his back was like a barn door and the love-locks curling on his brow," and she came into the chamber wringing pitiful, toil-worn hands, and the servants after her, ashiver to be left alone in the dim passage.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

Ochone! she said, your blue eyes to be without sight, you that were friendly and generous and pursuing.

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

Ochone, kind mouth that was sweet-voiced telling stories; since the time love first came on your face, you never refused either weak or strong.

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

From this day I have nothing to say that is better than Ochone!

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

“Ochone! for ever, ” said he to himself, “it’s the bad life I’m leading that has given the good people this power over me.

Teig O’Kane and the Corpse 1921

Ochone, O head! you gave death to great heroes, to many hundreds; my head will lie in the same grave, the one stone will be made for both of us.

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

Ochone! it is you are a sharp grief to young Mary ni-Curtain!

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

When the girl began her tune again Hope sang with her, repeating "Ochone, ochone" down four notes from the octave of the keynote through the mediate to the keynote again.

The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907