Keppoch song

80 A KEPPOCH SONG. canto iv.
Remorse of conscience strikes their mind,
Quaking of heart the hirelings find.
Mangled heaps of bodies they see,
Death each moment stares in their e'e;
They now bethink themselves of flight,
Terrified with th' furious fight ;
Routed, they now from the field run,
Deeply regretting they begun :
Brave Suddy on the field does lie,
Great many more around him die.
The heaps they collect— in earth they lay,
Soon t' revolve into mother clay;
Toshach too a pris'ner is ta'en,
Brought to Keppoch upon the green;
For life from him he humbly sues,
In pitious moans the suit renews;
Vows he will never try to expel
Keppoch from either hill or dale ;
All claim to his lands he does renounce*,
Homeward then he's allowed to trounce.
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* The writer cannot find out the origin of Macintosh's pre-
tensions to the superiority of the lands of Keppoch — " He, as
well as the Camerons, and most other neighbouring clans,
while the family of Macdonald continued in a flourishing con-
dition, were dependents on the same. But after the extinc-
tion of that great family, each of these clans came into an in-
dependent state, setting up upon all occasions for themselves."