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 THE HEART OF THE BRUCE.

��" When he found his end drew nigh, that great king summoned his barons and peers around him, and, singling out the good Lord James of Douglas, fondly entreated him, as his old friend and companion in arms, to cause his heart to he taken from his body, after death, and to transport it to Palestine, in redemption of a vow which he had made to go thither in person."

Sir Walter Scott's History of Scotland.

��KING ROBERT bore with gasping breath

The strife of mortal pain, And, gathering round the couch of death,

His nobles mourned in vain. Bathed were his brows in chilling dew,

As thus he faintly cried, " Red Corny n, in his sins, I slew

At the high altar's side.

" For this, a vow my soul hath bound,

In armed lists to ride, A warrior to that Holy Ground

Where my Redeemer died. Lord James of Douglas, see, we part !

I die before my time;

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