Kenmure
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Kenmure
1715
"The heather's in a blaze, Willie,
The White Rose decks the tree,
The Fiery Cross is on the braes,
And the King is on the sea!
"Remember great Montrose, Willie,
Remember fair Dundee,
And strike one stroke at the foreign foes
Of the King that's on the sea.
"There's Gordons in the North, Willie,
Are rising frank and free,
Shall a Kenmure Gordon not go forth
For the King that's on the sea?
"A trusty sword to draw, Willie,
A comely weird to dree,
For the Royal Rose that's like the snaw,
And the King that's on the sea!"
He cast ae look across his lands,
Looked over loch and lea,
He took his fortune in his hands,
For the King was on the sea.
Kenmures have fought in Galloway
For Kirk and Presbyt'rie,
This Kenmure faced his dying day,
For King James across the sea.
It little skills what faith men vaunt,
If loyal men they be
To Christ's ain Kirk and Covenant,
Or the King that's o'er the sea.
About Andrew Lang
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Summary
Preface
In Augustinum Dobson
Loyal Lyrics
How the Maid Marched from Blois
Lone Places of the Deer
An Old Song
Jacobite "Auld Lang Syne"
The Prince's Birthday
The Tenth of June
White Rose Day
Red and White Roses
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
Kenmure
Culloden
The Last of the Leal
Jeanne d'Arc
Cricket Rhymes
To Helen
Ballade of Dead Cricketers
Brahma
Critical of Life, Art, and Literature
Gainsborough Ghosts
A Remonstrance with the Fair
Rhyme of Rhymes
Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes
Rococo
The Food of Fiction
'A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts'
Matrimony
Piscatori Piscator
The Contented Angler
Off My Game
The Property of a Gentleman
The Ballade of the Subconscious Self
Ballade of the Optimist
Zimbabwe
Love's Cryptogram
Tusitala
Disdainful Diaphenia
Tall Salmacis
Jubilee Poems
What Francesco said of the Jubilee
The Poet and the Jubilee
On any Beach
Ode of Jubilee
Jubilee before Revolution
French Peasant Songs
Ballads
The Young Ruthven
The Queen o' Spain
Keith of Craigentolly
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