StoryTitle("caps", "Bannockburn") ?>
SubTitle("caps", "Robert Bruce's Address to his Army.") ?>
can look down on the battle-field of Bannockburn from Stirling Castle,
Scotland, near which stands a magnificent statue of Robert, the Bruce. How
often have I trodden over the old battle-field. The monument of William
Wallace, too, looms up on the Ochil Hills, not far away. (1759-96.)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scots, wham Bruce has aften led;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Welcome to your gory bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or to victorie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now's the day, and now's the hour;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See the front o' battle lower;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See approach proud Edward's power—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chains and slaverie!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wha will be a traitor knave?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wha can fill a coward's grave?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wha sae base as be a slave?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let him turn and flee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wha for Scotland's King and law", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Freedom's sword will strongly draw,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Freeman stand, or freeman fa'?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let him follow me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By oppression's woes and pains!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By your sons in servile chains!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We will drain our dearest veins,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But they shall be free!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lay the proud usurpers low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tyrants fall in every foe!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Liberty's in every blow!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let us do, or die!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Robert Burns.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>