Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Linlithgow | | Linlithgow | | Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | (From Marmion)
OF all the palaces so fair, | |
| Built for the royal dwelling, | |
| In Scotland far beyond compare, | |
| Linlithgow is excelling; | |
| And in its park, in jovial June, | 5 |
| How sweet the merry linnet’s tune, | |
| How blithe the blackbird’s lay! | |
| The wild-buck bells from ferny brake, | |
| The coot dives merry on the lake; | |
| The saddest heart might pleasure take | 10 |
| To see all nature gay. | |
| But June is, to our Sovereign dear, | |
| The heaviest month in all the year; | |
| Too well his cause of grief you know, | |
| June saw his father’s overthrow. | 15 |
| Woe to the traitors who could bring | |
| The princely boy against his king! | |
| Still in his conscience burns the sting. | |
| In offices as strict as Lent, | |
| King James’s June is ever spent. | 20 | | | |
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