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I have not understood the summary of the poem LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER......Please explain it to me in short and in simple manner.......

Lord Ullin's beautiful and young daughter falls in love with the Chief of Ulva's Isle. She loves the chief passionately and wants to marry him. But she was well-aware that her father would never agree to it, instead, he would have her lover killed. So, she had no other alternative but to defy her father and elope with her lover.

Now when her father came to know about their elopement, he became furious and followed them with a group of armed men. For three days, they were able to dodge her father and his men. Then Lord Ullin's Daughter and her lover reached the shore of Lochgyle and the lover asks the boatman not to delay and rown them over the ferry to the other shore where lied Chief Ulva's native state. Then the ferry-man promises to help them and all the three of them get into the ferry. By that time, the sea has an uprising storm and as soon as they left the shore, Lord Ullin reached it and saw that his daughter was held up in a storm and was sure to die, so he called for her and told hat he would forgive her and her lover. But in vain, the waves came over her and her lover and she was killed. The father was left lamenting.

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In 1795 Campbell visited Mull, one of the largest islands of the Inner Hebrides (Argyllshire, Scotland), and there sketched the ballad "Lord Ullin's Daughter," which he reworked in 1804 and finally published in 1809. (3) The ballad is the story of an attempted elopement which results in the deaths of the couple. The fleeing lovers, the young "chief of Ulva's isle" and his "bonny bride," Lord Ullin's daughter, have been hotly pursued by Lord Ullin and his horsemen for three days. Both know that the young man's life will be forfeit if they are captured. They approach a boatman to whom the young man offers money if he will row them over the ferry; that is, if he will take them across Lochgyle. The boatman, a "hardy Highland wight," agrees to row them across in spite of the raging storm, not for money, but for the sake of the "winsome lady." As the pursuers approach, the boat puts out into the stormy loch. When Lord Ullin reaches the shore, he is forced to watch his daughter and her lover drown as he calls out to them, vainly promising forgiveness to the young man if only they will return.

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