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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Scotish Cavalier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come listen to another song,<br>Should make your heart beat high,<br>Bring crimson to your forehead,<br>And the lustre to your eye;-<br>It is a song of olden time,<br>Of days long since gone by,<br>And of a Baron stout and bold<br>As e'er wore sword on thigh!<br>Like a brave old Scottish cavalier,<br>All of the olden time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He kept his castle in the north,<br>Hard by the thundering Spey;<br>And a thousand vassals dwelt around<br>All of his kindred they.<br>And not a man of all that clan<br>Had ever ceased to pray<br>For the Royal race they loved so well,<br>Though exiled far away<br>From the steadfast Scottish cavaliers,<br>All of the olden time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father drew the righteous sword<br>For Scotland and her claims,<br>Among the loyal gentlemen<br>And chiefs of ancient names<br>Who swore to fight or fall beneath<br>The standard of King James,<br>And died at Killiecrankie pass<br>With the glory of the Graemes;<br>Like a true old Scottish cavalier,<br>All of the olden time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He never owned the foreign rule,<br>No master he obeyed,<br>But kept his clan in peace at home,<br>From foray and from raid;<br>And when they asked him for his oath,<br>He touched his glittering blade,<br>And pointed to his bonnet blue,<br>That bore the white cockade:<br>Like a leal old Scottish cavalier,<br>All of the olden time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length the news ran through the land-<br>THE PRINCE had come again!<br>That night the fiery cross was sped<br>O'er mountain and through glen;<br>And our old Baron rose in might,<br>Like a lion from his den,<br>And rode away across the hills<br>To Charlie and his men,<br>With the valiant Scottish cavaliers,<br>All of the olden time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was the first that bent the knee<br>When the STANDARD waved abroad,<br>He was the first that charged the foe<br>On Preston's bloody sod;<br>And ever, in the van of fight,<br>The foremost still he trod,<br>Until, on bleak Culloden's heath,<br>He gave his soul to God,<br>Like a good old Scottish cavalier,<br>All of the olden time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! never shall we know again<br>A heart so stout and true-<br>The olden times have passed away,<br>And weary are the new:<br>The fair White Rose has faded<br>From the garden where it grew,<br>And no fond tears save those of heaven<br>The glorious bed bedew<br>Of the last old Scottish cavalier,<br>All of the olden time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Edmondstoune+Aytoun">William Edmondstoune Aytoun</a><div class=q>
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Come listen to another song,
Should make your heart beat high,
Bring crimson to your forehead,
And the lustre to your eye;-
It is a song of olden time,
Of days long since gone by,
And of a Baron stout and bold
As e'er wore sword on thigh!
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