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4 But not alone on Scotland’s plains

Be Freedom’s flag unfurled;

Oh, let her life-inspiring strains

Resound thro’ all the world;

May Grace promote the glorious eausecause [sic]

Of freedom, truth, and equal laws,

Till love unite both Greek and Jew

In peace beneath the Banner blue!

THE WIGTOWN MARTYRS.

[Margaret Lanchlison, 63; and Margaret Wilson, 18.]

When Havoe’sHavoc's [sic] hounds, in Seotland'sScotland’s [sic] “killing time,”

Deep stained her heather with her martyrs’ blood,

Then soeialsocial [sic] worship was a eivilcivil [sic] erimecrime [sic],

That filled the dungeon, and abashed the flood.

Two lustrous pearls enriehenrich [sic] Immanuel’s erowncrown [sic],

As these two Marg’rets* join the martyr train;

What tho’ a tyrant’s tool their bodies drown?—

Better they die than Jesus cease to reign.

That Widow cleaves to Him who proved her stay,

When the fond arm on which she trusted failed;

That Maiden, budding in life’s dewy May,

Before Oppression’s frown has never quailed.

They toss the corded Matron to the tide,

And ruthless halberts bruise her bosom faint ;—

“What see I there,” the Martyr-Maid replied,

“But Jesus wrestling in His faithful saint?


 * Marguerite signifies a pearl.