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3AKT0 1. A KEPPOCH SONG. 25
From Saxon battles I now cease,
The pass to guard — let that suffice.
My galleys rigg'd, my sails I hoize,
Lorie* on the poop uprise;
My flag display'd, my blanket blue,
Aloft it waves, right fair to view:
Landed on Hibernia's shore,
Sad scenes of ravage I deplore:
Her smoaking ruins my mind assail,
And for a time does grief prevail.
Fair hope now cheers my pensive breast,
Shades of departed heroes rest!
Fierce Lochlin's force may be repell'd,
And the proud foe to fly compell'd:
Shades of my fathers me now aid,
Your mighty deeds me not upbraid !
Hibernia's drooping force I join,
Th' high command to me they assign.
Soon with the foe we do engage,
With martial vie our breasts do rage.
What mighty deeds now raise our fame,
How bards exalt each hero's name;
What streams of blood, what hills of slain,
Swell each mead, and mark each plain:
* Lonmer, the name of a piper.
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From Saxon battles I now cease,
The pass to guard — let that suffice.
My galleys rigg'd, my sails I hoize,
Lorie* on the poop uprise;
My flag display'd, my blanket blue,
Aloft it waves, right fair to view:
Landed on Hibernia's shore,
Sad scenes of ravage I deplore:
Her smoaking ruins my mind assail,
And for a time does grief prevail.
Fair hope now cheers my pensive breast,
Shades of departed heroes rest!
Fierce Lochlin's force may be repell'd,
And the proud foe to fly compell'd:
Shades of my fathers me now aid,
Your mighty deeds me not upbraid !
Hibernia's drooping force I join,
Th' high command to me they assign.
Soon with the foe we do engage,
With martial vie our breasts do rage.
What mighty deeds now raise our fame,
How bards exalt each hero's name;
What streams of blood, what hills of slain,
Swell each mead, and mark each plain:
* Lonmer, the name of a piper.
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| Description | A poem in five cantos: being the origin and history of the family, alias Donald, Lord of the Isles, carried down to its extinction, with a continuation of the family of Keppoch; the whole combined with the history of Scotland, with notes and references, and concluding with an analysis of the Scotch acts of Parliament, relative to the Douglas association; and an address to His Royal Highness the prince regent. By John Paul Macdonald. Montrose : Printed for the author by J. Watt, 1815. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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