The works of Allan Ramsay edited by Burns Martin ... and John W. Oliver [... and Alexander M. Kinghorn ... and Alexander Law] |
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On the Royal Company of Scottish Archers.
Who can with so much Envy be possest,Not frankly to rejoyce to see at last
The Scottish Archers now again reviv'd;
Whose martial Deeds can hardly be believ'd?
These made great Rome her conquering Pride let fall,
And here defend her Friends with Ditch and Wall.
These with their Lives their Liberties maintain'd,
And bravely kept their Honour still unstain'd,
Thro' many Ages; to their Progeny
Delivering down their Laws and Country free.
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Behold of pleasant Comrads now a Train,
Join'd, not for Glory, nor the Hope of Gain:
But whose approved Truth and Honesty,
With a fix'd Purpose of Integrity,
Makes all with sweetest Harmony t'agree.
Join'd, not for Glory, nor the Hope of Gain:
But whose approved Truth and Honesty,
With a fix'd Purpose of Integrity,
Makes all with sweetest Harmony t'agree.
Who neither do their Friends in Straits forsake,
Nor by envious Fame their Judgments make;
Nor from Pursuit of what is just recede,
For Pray'rs, or Threats, or Promise of good Deed.
Nor by envious Fame their Judgments make;
Nor from Pursuit of what is just recede,
For Pray'rs, or Threats, or Promise of good Deed.
If in Defence of Albion's Liberty,
The Rampant Lion shall be rais'd on high,
Guarded with Armies of such Gallant Youth,
Whose Breasts are arm'd with Courage and with Truth,
Their Foes must quit the Field, or lose their Breath;
Their pointed Arrows do give certain Death.
The Rampant Lion shall be rais'd on high,
Guarded with Armies of such Gallant Youth,
Whose Breasts are arm'd with Courage and with Truth,
Their Foes must quit the Field, or lose their Breath;
Their pointed Arrows do give certain Death.
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