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Rh Known as Bannockburn in story,

Brightest scene of Scottish glory.

On pleasure and instruction bent

We made the Stirling hill ascent,

And saw the wondrous vale beneath,

The lovely valley of Monteith,

Stretching under sunlit skies

To where the Trossach hills arise.

Thence we turned our willing car

Westward ho! to Callander,

Where childish memories awoke

In the wood of ash and oak,

Where in days so long gone by

I heard the woodland pigeons cry,

And, consternation in my face,

Legged it to some safer place.

Next morning first we viewed a mound,

Memorial of some saint renowned,