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Come from deep glen and

From mountain so rocky,
The war-pipe and pennon
Are at Inverlochy.
Come every hill-plaid and
True heart that wears one,
Come every steel blade and

Strong hand that bears one.

Leave untended the herd,

The flock without shelter;
Leave the corpse uninterred,
The bride at the altar;
Leave the deer, leave the steer,
Leave nets and barges:
Come with your fighting gear,
Broadswords and targes.

Come as the winds come when
Forests are rended;

Come as the waves come when

Navies are stranded: Faster come, faster come,

Faster and faster,

Chief, vassal, page and groom,

Tenant and master.

Fast they come, fast they come;

See how they gather!

Wide waves the eagle plume

Blended with heather.

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The Chief Who in Triumph Advances

Cast your plaids, draw your blades,

Forward each man set!
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu,

Knell for the onset!

1816.

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Sir Walter Scott.

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'HAIL TO THE CHIEF WHO IN

TRIUMPH ADVANCES!"

From The Lady of the Lake

HAIL to the Chief who in triumph advances! Honored and blessed be the ever-green Pine! Long may the tree, in his banner that glances, Flourish, the shelter and grace of our line! Heaven send it happy dew,

Earth lend it sap anew,

Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow,

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While every Highland glen

Sends our shout back again,

Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!" ΤΟ

Ours is no sapling, chance-sown by the foun

tain,

Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade; When the whirlwind has stripped every leaf on the mountain,

The more shall Clan-Alpine exult in her

shade.

Moored in the rifted rock,

Proof to the tempest's shock,

Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow;

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Menteith and Breadalbane, then

Echo his praise again,

Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!"

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Proudly our pibroch has thrilled in Glen Fruin, And Bannochar's groans to our slogan replied; Glen-Luss and Ross-dhu, they are smoking in ruin,

And the best of Loch Lomond lie dead on her

side.

Widow and Saxon maid

Long shall lament our raid,

Think of Clan-Alpine with fear and with woe; Lennox and Leven-glen

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Shake when they hear again,

Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe! 30

Row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands!

Stretch to your oars for the ever-green Pine! O that the rosebud that graces yon islands Were wreathed in a garland around him to twine!

O that some seedling gem,

Worthy such noble stem

Honored and blessed in their shadow might

grow!

Loud should Clan-Alpine then

Ring from her deepmost glen,

"Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!

1810.

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Sir Walter Scott.

CAVALIER TUNES

I

MARCHING ALONG

KENTISH Sir Byng stood for his King,
Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing:
And, pressing a troop unable to stoop

And see the rogues flourish and honest folk

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Marched them along, fifty-score strong,
Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song.

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God for King Charles! Pym and such carles To the Devil that prompts 'em their treasonous parles!

Cavaliers, up! Lips from the cup,

Hands from the pasty, nor bite take nor sup
Till you 're-

CHORUS.-Marching along, fifty-score strong, Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song?

Hampden to hell, and his obsequies' knell. Serve Hazelrig, Fiennes, and young Harry as

well!

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England, good cheer! Rupert is near!
Kentish and loyalists, keep we not here,
CHORUS.-Marching along, fifty-score strong,
Great-hearted gentlemen, singing
this song?

Then, God for King Charles! Pym and his

snarls

To the Devil that pricks on such pestilent carles!

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Hold by the right, you double your might;
So, onward to Nottingham, fresh for the fight,
CHORUS.-March we along, fifty-score strong,
Great-hearted gentlemen, singing
this song!

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II

GIVE A ROUSE

King Charles, and who'll do him right now?

King Charles, and who's ripe for fight now?
Give a rouse: here's, in hell's despite now,
King Charles!

Who gave me the goods that went since?
Who raised me the house that sank once?
Who helped me to gold I spent since?
Who found me in wine you drank once?
CHORUS.-King Charles, and who 'll do him
right now?

King Charles, and who's ripe for fight

now?

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