StoryTitle("caps", "The Bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the Lords o' Convention 't was Claver'se who spoke,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Ere the king's crown shall fall, there are crowns to be broke;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So let each cavalier who loves honor and me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come follow the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come saddle your horses, and call out your men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come open the West Port and let me gang free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And it's room for the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bells are rung backwards, the drums they are beat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the provost, donce man, said, \"Just e'en let him be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Gude Town is well quit of that deil of Dundee!\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(92, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he rode down the sanctified bends of the bow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ilk carline was flyting and shaking her pow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the young plants o' grace they looked couthie and slee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thinking, Luck to thy bonnet, thou Bonnie Dundee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sour-featured Whigs the Grass Market was cramm'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if half the west had set tryst to be hanged;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was spite in each look, there was fear in each ee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As they watched for the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These cowls of Kilmarnock had spits and had spears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lang-hafted gullies to kill Cavaliers;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But they shrunk to close-heads, and the causeway was free", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the toss o' the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He spurred to the foot o' the proud castle rock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with the gay Gordon he gallantly spoke: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Let Mons Meg and her marrows speak twa words or three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the love o' the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Gordon demands of him which way he goes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Where'er shall direct me the shade o' Montrose! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your grace in short space shall hear tidings of me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or that low lies the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PagePoem(93, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There are hills beyond Pentland and lands beyond Forth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If there's lords in the lowland, there's chiefs in the north;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There are wild Duniewassals three thousand times three ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will cry 'Hey!' for the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There's brass on the target of barken'd bull-hide, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's steel in the scabbard that dangles beside; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The brass shall be burnished, the steel shall flash free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At a toss o' the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Away to the hills, to the caves, to the rocks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere I own a usurper I'll couch with the fox: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tremble, false Whigs, in the midst of your glee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye have no seen the last o' my Bonnet and me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He waved his proud hand, and the trumpets were blown. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The kettle-drums clashed, and the horsemen rode on. Till, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "on Ravelston's cliffs and on Clermiston's lea ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Died away the wild war-notes o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come saddle the horses, and call up the men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come open your gates, and let me gang free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For it's up with the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sir Walter Scott.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>