Keppoch song

SO A KEPPOCH SONG. canto t,
One hundred years ere Christ appear'd,
Around my royal voice was heard.
I landed next on Argyle's shores,
To chace the deer and kill the boars:
The western shores of all Argyle
Were a' my ain for many a mile;
Kintyre and Knapdale I did gain,
Fifty-four years prior one*.
Lochaber and Bad'noch own'd my sway,
Mine ancient right, and property.
Th' Scots a difTrent colony were,
And settled on Argyle elsewhere:
As Saxons they to me were known,
Hence discords rise, and maidens moan ;
Soon martial strife we do begin,
The mountains echo with the din;
My lionf roars, and shakes his mane,
The sound returns from plain to plain ;
* The Christian epocha, in the reign of Ederus, king of tht
Scots. The spirit of the first chiefs is supposed to animate
their successors ; hence the action continues a& of one per-
sonage.
t The arms of the Macdonalds, 1st, Or, a Hon, rampant,
azure, armed, and languid gules. 2d, A dexter hand coupee,
holding a cross croslet fitchie sable. 3d, Or, a ship, with her
sails furled satterwise, sable. 4th, A salmon naint, proper,
with a chief waved, argent.