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"Other Romans shall arise,

Heedless of a soldier's name;

Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize,
Harmony the path to fame.

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Such the bard's prophetic words,
Pregnant with celestial fire,
Bending as he swept the chords
Of his sweet but awful lyre.

She, with all a monarch's pride,
Felt them in her bosom glow;
Rushed to battle, fought and died,-
Dying, hurled them at the foe.

Ruffians, pitiless as proud,

Heaven awards the vengeance due;

Empire is on us bestowed,

Shame and ruin wait for you!

1782.

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William Cowper.

BONNY DUNDEE

To the Lords of Convention 't was Claver'se

who spoke,

"Ere the King's crown shall fall there are crowns

to be broke;

So let each Cavalier who loves honour and me, Come follow the bonnet of Bonny Dundee.. Come fill up my cup, come fill, up my can, Come saddle your horses and call up your

men;

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Come open the West Port and let me gang

free,

And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny

Dundee !",

Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street, The bells are rung backward, the drums they

are beat;

But the Provost, douce man, said, "Just e'en

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The Gude Town is weel quit of that Deil of

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As he rode down the sanctified bends of the

Bow,

Ilk carline was flyting and shaking her pow;

But the young plants of grace they looked couthie and slee,

Thinking, luck to thy bonnet, thou Bonny

Dundee !

With sour-featured Whigs the Grassmarket

was crammed,

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As if half the West had set tryst to be hanged; There was spite in each look, there was fear

in each e'e,

As they watched for the bonnets of Bonny

Dundee.

These cowls of Kilmarnock had spits and had

spears,

And lang-hafted gullies to kill Cavaliers';

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But they shrunk to close-heads and the cause way was free,

At the toss of the bonnet of Bonny Dundee. 24

He spurred to the foot of the proud Castle rock, And with the gay Gordon he gallantly spoke; Let Mons Meg and her marrows speak twa

words or three,

For the love of the bonnet of Bonny Dundee." 28

The Gordon demands of him which way he

goes

"Where'er shall direct me the shade of Mon

trose!

Your Grace in short space shall hear tidings

of me,

Or that low lies the bonnet of Bonny Dundee. 32

"There are hills beyond Pentland and lands be

yond Forth,

If there's lords in the Lowlands, there's chiefs

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flash free,

At a toss of the bonnet of Bonny Dundee.

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"Away to the hills, to the caves, to the rocksEre I own an usurper, I'll couch with the fox; And tremble, false Whigs, in the midst of your

glee,

You have not seen the last of my bonnet and

me!

He waved his proud hand and the trumpets

were blown,

The kettle-drums clashed, and the horsemen

rode on,

Till on Ravelston's cliffs and on Clermiston's

lee

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Died away the wild war-notes of Bonny Dun

dee.

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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,
Come saddle the horses and call up the

men;

Come open your gates and let me gae free, . For it's up with the bonnets of Bonny

Dundee !

1825. 1830.

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Sir Walter Scott.

THE SOLDIER'S DREAM

OUR bugles sang truce,-for the night-cloud had lowered,

And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;

And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered,

The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.

When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the : slain;

At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it

again.

Methought from the battle-field's dreadful

array, '

Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track:

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