Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Edinburgh | | The Martyrs’ Hill | | Robert Allan (1774–1841) |
| | | THERE ’s nae Covenant now, lassie! | |
| There ’s nae Covenant now! | |
| The Solemn League and Covenant | |
| Are a’ broken through! | |
| There ’s nae Renwick now, lassie, | 5 |
| There ’s nae gude Cargill, | |
| Nor holy Sabbath preaching | |
| Upon the Martyrs’ Hill! | |
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| It ’s naething but a sword, lassie, | |
| A bluidy, bluidy ane! | 10 |
| Waving owre poor Scotland, | |
| For her rebellious sin. | |
| Scotland ’s a’ wrang, lassie, | |
| Scotland ’s a’ wrang,— | |
| It ’s neither to the hill nor glen, | 15 |
| Lassie, we daur gang. | |
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| The Martyrs’ Hill ’s forsaken | |
| In simmer’s dusk sae calm; | |
| There ’s nae gathering now, lassie, | |
| To sing the e’ening psalm! | 20 |
| But the martyrs’ grave will rise, lassie, | |
| Aboon the warrior’s cairn; | |
| An’ the martyr soun’ will sleep, lassie, | |
| Aneath the waving fern! | | | | |
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