A FAREWELL. 55 A FAREWELL. Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, A service to my bonnie lassie: Fu' loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry, The ship rides by the Berwick-law, The trumpets sound, the banners fly, The battle closes thick and bloody: Wad make me langer wish to tarry; Nor shouts o' war that's heard afarIt's leaving thee, my bonnie Mary. R. Burns. 56 THE MINSTREL-BOY. THE MINSTREL-BOY. THE Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, And his wild harp slung behind him.— The Minstrel fell!-but the foeman's chain Thy songs were made for the brave and free, They shall never sound in slavery!" T. Moore. Now's the day, and now's the hour; See approach proud Edward's pow'r- Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha for Scotland's King and law By Oppression's woes and pains, Lay the proud usurpers low! R. Burns. 58 LIBERTY OR DEATH. LIBERTY OR DEATH. OH, where's the slave so lowly His bonds at first, Would pine beneath them slowly? At once may spring To the throne of Him who made it? Less dear the laurel growing The brows with victory glowing. Are by our side, And the foe we hate before us. T. Mocre. THE BATTLE OF IVRY. 59 THE BATTLE OF IVRY. Now glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are! And glory to our Sovereign Liege, King Henry of Navarre! Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy. Hurrah! hurrah! a single field hath turned the chance of war, Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry, and King Henry of Navarre. Oh! how our hearts were beating, when at the dawn of day land! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand! And as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's empurpled flood, And good Coligni's hoary hair all dabbled with his blood; And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for his own holy name, and Henry of Navarre. |