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 * ROM Spey to the border,
 * Was peace and good order;

The sway of our Monarch was mild as the M
 * Peace he adored,
 * Which South'rons abhorred;

Our marches they plunder, our wardens they


 * 'Gainst Louis, our ally,
 * Their Henry did sally,

Tho' James, but in vain, did his heralds
 * Renouncing alliance,
 * Denouncing defiance,

To South'rons if langerlonger [sic] abiding in France.


 * Many were the omens,
 * Our ruin was coming,

E'er the flower of the nation was call'd to array
 * Our King at devotion,
 * St. Andrew gave him caution,

And sigh'd as with sorrow he to him did say,—


 * Sir, in this expedition,
 * You must have ambition;

From the company of women you must keep away,
 * When the spectre thus declared,
 * It quickly disappeared,

But where it retired no man could espy.


 * The flowers of the natiounation [sic],
 * Were call'd to their station,