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ROM the ocean emerged bright Phoebus’s ray,

Big with the importance of Bannockburn’s day,

To deck out the pomp of the broad shining field,

Which now a glitt’ring harvest of lances did yield,

Resolv’d on a conquest of Scotia’s plains,

To annex them for ever to England's domain

Bold Edward, with the hugest host

e’er England did produce,

With haughty pride advanced

to dethrone Robert Bruce.

From an army compos’d of an hundred thousand men,

Well serv’d in ev’ry article to fight upon the plain;

Where the whole strength of England collected you might see,

Who could not dream of any nothing but certain victory,