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MODERN GAELIC BARDS.
They’ve bridled him and saddled him,
And set the King* thereon,
Whose was the right of all these realms,
Though they banish’d far his son.
The great House of the Parliament
Is worthy a good view ;
There reasonable gentlemen
Deliver judgments true :
They have a power given them,
Will last them many a day—
To hang the faulty up on high,
And let the good away.
And here a Healing-house I see,
Where the best Leeches go ;
And cure each kind of suffering
That limb and body know :
The man who is in want of health,
Whom Leeches long attend,
Here is the place for him to come,
And keep him from his end.
Dunedin is a bonny place
In far more ways than one—
A town that must not yield to it
In this whole realm is none.
So many gentlemen are there,
Of tribute-raising line— .
Men who may daily quench their thirst
With the good Spanish wine.
* The Statue of King Charles the Second, in the Parliament
Square, is here referred to, although Duncan Ban speaks of it as
if it were that of King James the Second.