Many a cruel
storm has it weathered, while lordly ships and little fishing cobles
have been driven to destruction by the lashing waves on the rocks down
below. And there it was that, once on a day, there lived a King who,
when his fair wife died and left to him the care of her handsome,
fearless boy, and her beautiful, gentle daughter, did, as is the fashion
of every King of fairy tale, wed again, and wed a wicked wife. To the
south land he went, while his son sailed the seas in search of high
adventure, and his daughter acted as chatelaine in the castle by the
sea, and there he met the woman who came to Bamborough all those many
years ago, and who, they say, remains there still.
As the dawn rose over the grey sea, making even the dark rocks of the
Farnes like a garden where only pink roses grew, the Princess Margaret
would be on the battlements looking out, always looking out, for her
father and brother to return. At sunset, when the sea was golden and the
plain stretched purple away to the south, landward and seaward her eyes
would still gaze. And at night, when the silver moon made a path on the
sea, the Princess would listen longingly to the lap of the waves, and
strain her beautiful eyes through the darkness for the sails of the ship
that should bring the two that she loved safe home again.
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