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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529236" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dirge of Wallace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, <br> The debt of his nature did pay, <br>T' was Edward, the cruel, had reason to fear, <br> And cause to be struck with dismay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the window of Edward the raven did croak, <br> Though Scotland a widow became; <br>Each tie of true honor to Wallace he broke- <br> The raven croaked &quot;Sorrow and shame!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Eldersie Castle no raven was heard, <br> But soothings of honor and truth; <br>His spirit inspired the soul of the bard <br> To comfort the Love of his youth! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They lighted the tapers at dead of night, <br> And chanted their holiest hymn; <br>But her brow and her bosom were all damp with affright, <br> Her eye was all sleepless and dim! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the lady of Eldersie wept for her lord, <br> With a death-watch beat in her lonely room, <br>When her curtain shook of its own accord, <br>And the raven flapped at her window board <br> To tell of her warrior's doom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now sing ye the death-song, and loudly pray <br> For the soul of my knight so dear! <br>And call me a widow, this wretched day, <br> Since the warning of God is here. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a nightmare rests on my strangled sleep; <br> The lord of my bosom is doomed to die! <br>His valorous heart they have wounded deep, <br>And the blood-red tears his country shall weep <br> For Wallace of Elderslie. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet knew not his country, that ominous hour, <br> Ere the loud matin-bell was rung, <br>That the trumpet of death on an English tower, <br> The dirge of her champion sung. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When his dungeon light looked dim and red <br> On the high-born blood of a martyr slain, <br>No anthem was sung at his lowly death-bed,- <br>No weeping was there when his bosom bled, <br> And his heart was rent in twain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he strode o'er the wreck of each well-fought field, <br> With the yellow-haired chiefs of his native land; <br>For his lace was not shivered on helmet or shield, <br>And the sword that was fit for archangel to wield <br> Was light in his terrible hand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, bleeding and bound, though the &quot;Wallacewight&quot; <br> For his long-loved country die,, <br>The bugle ne'er sung to a braver night <br> Than William of Elderslie. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the day of his triumphs shall never depart; <br> His head, unemtombed, shall with glory be palmed: <br>From its blood streaming altar his spirit shall start; <br>Though the raven has fed on his mouldering heart, <br> A nobler was never embalmed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Campbell">Thomas Campbell</a><div class=q>
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 The debt of his nature did pay, 
T' was Edward, the cruel, had reason to fear, 
 And cause to be struck with dismay. 

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