Page:Speech of King Robert the Bruce to his troops, to urge them on to fight with King Edward II. and his formidable host, at the ever memorable Battle of Bannockburn, fought on the 25th of June, 1314.pdf/3

 By Oppression's woes and pains!

By your sons in servile chains,

We will drain our dearest veins,

But they shall, they shall be free!

Lay the proud usurpers low!

Tyrants fall in every foe!

Liberty's in every blow!

Forward! let us do, or die!





yet hypocrisy and art

Have wrapp'd in treble brass the heart,—

The natural intercourse supprest

Between the countenance and breast;

Each motion of the mind we trace

By her interpreter, the face.