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16 Many a banner spread, flutters above your head,

Many a crest that is famous in story,

Mount and make ready then, sons of the mountain glen,

Fight for your Queen and the old Scottish glory.

Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing,

Come from the glen of the buck and the roe:

Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing;

Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow.

Trumpets are sounding, war-steeds are bounding;

Stand to your arms, and march in good order;

England shall many a day tell of the bloody fray,

When the blue bonnets came over the border.

[ elegant lyric appears in the Tea-Table Miscellany, headed Gilderoy, that being the tune to which it is adapted. It has also been copied into most other Scottish collections of songs, and ascribed to of Culloden. Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, however, has recently discovered it to belong to Sir Charley's Sedley's play of the Mulberry Tree, which was printed in 1675, before President Forbes was born. It can therefore no longer be admitted with propriety into any Scottish collection, and is only reprinted here for the purpose of correcting a long established error.]

[ first appeared in a small volume of poems by, Edinburgh, published about 1818. It was quoted in the Scotsman newspaper, and became generally popular.]

[ on the death of Sir Walter Scott, by. Set to Music by Finlay Dun.]

Minstrel sleeps! the charm is o'er,

The bowl beside the fount is broken,

And we shall hear that harp no more

Whose tones to every land hath spoken!