I joy when I sing of Lochaber's lone star.
Which springs in its beauty from fountains above.
Be ever your song of Lochaber's lone star.
Its sunshine still clings with delight to my heart.
Of sweet Fassifern, my Lochaber's lone star.
Editor's Note: Probably from Allan's "Heather Bells, or Poems and Songs" (or from his earlier work, "Hame-spun Lilts.) Selections from this publication were featured in The Celtic Magazine, where "Lochaber's Lone Star" was published in their November 1878 issue, with the dedication "To Fassifern Cameron Stewart, Nether-Lochaber." The November 1875 issue of The Celtic Magazine mentions William Allan's recently published "Heather Bells, or Poems and Songs," so this poem is dated circa 1875.