The Marquis of Montrose . THE MARQUIS OFMONTROSE BY JOHN BUCHAN THOMAS NELSON AND SONS London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Leeds, Manchester, New YorkMelbourne, Paris, and Leipzig FRATRI T> H. B. When we were little wandering boys, And every hill was blue and high,On ballad ways and martial joys We fed our fancies, you and Bruce we crouched in bracken shade, With Douglas charged the Paynim foes;And oft in moorland noons I played Colkitto to your grave Montrose. The obliterating seasons flow— They cannot kill our boyish creeds may change and kings may go, Yet burns un
The Marquis of Montrose . THE MARQUIS OFMONTROSE BY JOHN BUCHAN THOMAS NELSON AND SONS London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Leeds, Manchester, New YorkMelbourne, Paris, and Leipzig FRATRI T> H. B. When we were little wandering boys, And every hill was blue and high,On ballad ways and martial joys We fed our fancies, you and Bruce we crouched in bracken shade, With Douglas charged the Paynim foes;And oft in moorland noons I played Colkitto to your grave Montrose. The obliterating seasons flow— They cannot kill our boyish creeds may change and kings may go, Yet burns undimmed the ancient young men in their pride make haste The wrong to right, the bond to free,And plant a garden in the waste, Still rides our Scottish chivalry. Another end had held your dream— To die fulfilled of hope and might,To pass in one swift rapturous gleam From mortal to immortal light—But through long hours of labouring breath You watched the world grow small and met the constant eyes ofmarquisofmontros00buchuoft
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