| The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] | 
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|  | The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd |  | 
“Withhold thy dread anathema,”
King Eric cried; “I'd rather brave
The rage of Albyn's winter wave;
Her tempests wild, her headlands stern;
Her friths so crooked, dark, and dern;
Her nation's force in rear and van,
Than the vile curse of Christian man!
King Eric cried; “I'd rather brave
The rage of Albyn's winter wave;
Her tempests wild, her headlands stern;
Her friths so crooked, dark, and dern;
Her nation's force in rear and van,
Than the vile curse of Christian man!
|  | The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd |  |