Excerpt from The Retired Lieutenant, and the Battle of Loncarty, Vol. 2 of 2: Poems

Battle of Loncarty.

And, spoiling all that cloth'd the ground,
Spread waste and desolation round.


Dire were the miseries of the state:
And oft the patriot nobles met,
Their sorrows to each other told,
And o'er the kingdoms ills condol'd,
But reverence for the kingly sway,
Still kept their rising rage at bay.
And sad, alone in Methven towers,
Oft great Rodardus pass'd his hours,
The deepest grief consign'd to prove,
As for his country strongest was his love.

And he the state, had it been brav'd
By war or faction, might have sav'd,
For troubled times he oft had seen,
And still the kingdom's stay had been.
When foreign foes the land assail'd
His valour public fear dispell'd,
When civil feuds, or faction's heat,
Perplex'd and gall'd the trembling state.
His virtue rais'd, his wisdom shone
A light and bulwark round the throne:

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