Keppoch song

SUPPLEMENT. 19T
thy unjust desires — let thy soul be attuned
to peace, and delight not in the blood of
the innocent. Pride and ambition led the
father of lies to rebel. He was expelled
from heaven, from the society of the good.
He triumphed in the fall of the first pair, as
augmenting his legion. Art thou his ge-
neral here? Avarice and ambition urge
thee on in the career of falsehood. Thou
hast penetrated to the castle by a circui-
tous path — tread not thy females in the
courts — introduce not thy spurious pro-
geny to the halls of my fathers. Seekest
thou, by attacking me, a more direct course
to thy usurpations? Well— two glens I
possess, granted to my fathers by their
sires. These, as the passes to the appen-
dages of the castle on the east I guard, that
castle of which my fathers were castellans ;
and, if thou wilt, in deference to thy Jiigh
titles, were lords lieutenants of the northern,
frontier. Betwixt me and thee is Cluny
Macpherson, whom I support, the faithful
liege of our ancient Lord — the friend of my
right hand. Hearken, therefore, tp the
counsel pf Coll of Keppoch the aged; whos£
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