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SONGS AND TOEMS. 11
TO SIR -EVEAS MATKI TOSH OK VI ACK I4HTOSH e..RT.
The name thy predecessors gain'd,
The while in Moy the heroes reign'd
With full Baronial power ;
A name they never yet have lost,
Though oft by stormy tempests tost,
But held it firm, whate'er the cost,
In each successive hour.
"Where'er heroic courage dwells,
Where'er the breast with valour swells,
Be laurel-wreaths decreed !
Whether for Chieftains, captive-led,
Or foemen, stretch' d in gory bed —
Kemember'd be the dead !
Years after years successive roll,
And generations pass away,
Yet leave behind them on the soul
Of foemen, feats of dazzling ray ;
For, even now, with willing ear,
We li ten to the tales of old,
And shed the sympathetic tear
O'er all the sorrows of the bold :
Or, in imagination, pour
Soft Pity's healing balm