Lays and ballads from English history, etc . n gleams redOn shatterd plumes and broken steel, And piles of gallant dead ;In the centre of that bloody field Lord Douglas lay in death,—Above him was his own good shield, And the Bruces heart beneath ! 100 LAYS AND BALLADS. ISTo tears for him! In Honours light, As he had lived, he night, thou dauntless soul, good night, For sure thou sleep est well!Full hearts and reverent hands had those Who bare thee on thy bierBack to the place of thy repose— Thy Scotland, famed and dear ! A valiant knight the casket bore : And for that honourd part,H
Lays and ballads from English history, etc . n gleams redOn shatterd plumes and broken steel, And piles of gallant dead ;In the centre of that bloody field Lord Douglas lay in death,—Above him was his own good shield, And the Bruces heart beneath ! 100 LAYS AND BALLADS. ISTo tears for him! In Honours light, As he had lived, he night, thou dauntless soul, good night, For sure thou sleep est well!Full hearts and reverent hands had those Who bare thee on thy bierBack to the place of thy repose— Thy Scotland, famed and dear ! A valiant knight the casket bore : And for that honourd part,His scutcheon wore for evermore A padlock and a buried the Douglas in St Bride ; And the heart of Bruce they laidIn Melrose stately aisles, beside The altars sacred shade. Not mine, with hand profane, to trace Grey Melrose towers around,—There is a Presence in the place, Making it holy their snows on that fair spot, May countless years succeed,But they sever not the name of Scott From Melrose and from Tweed !. GRIZZEL HUME. 101 [Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, afterwards Lord Marchmont, was one ofthe leaders of the Jerviswood plot in the reign of Charles II. When thisconspiracy was discovered, Sir Patrick, having narrowly escaped falling intothe hands of those who were sent to arrest him, concealed himself in a vaultin the churchyard of Polwarth, and remained there till his enemies had givenup seeking for him in that neighbourhood. During his sojourn in this darkand melancholy lurking-place, his daughter Grizzel, a girl about eighteenyears old, conveyed provisions to her father every night. She was obliged togo forth alone, at midnight, for this purpose ; and great must have been heralarm and anxiety during each of these perilous expeditions ; for had chancediscovered her to any evil-disposed person, the secret of her fathers hiding-place must inevitably have been discovered, and there can be but little doubtthat he would have shared the fate of th
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