{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Covenanters_coronal_Dunnottar_Castle/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Covenanters_coronal_Dunnottar_Castle","id":"wikisource_Covenanters_coronal_Dunnottar_Castle","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Covenanters'_coronal/Dunnottar_Castle","summary":null,"tags":["Church_of_Scotland","Main_pages_with_authority_control_data","PD-old","Pamphlets","Presbyterianism","Religion","Scotland","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","Works_using_categories_parameter"],"text":"DUNNOTTAR CASTLE\n\nDark Dunnottar, ere we go,\n\nWe will linger on this steep,\n\nWhile our pensive musings flow\n\nFrom the dungeon to the keep.\n\nWeary Watchmen from thy tower\n\nOft have strained their aching sight,\n\nWhen the English tyrant\u2019s power\n\nReft our liberty and right.\n\nOn thy rock has freedom fought\n\nIn the arm of Wallace brave,\n\nWhen her firebrand Vengeance brought,\n\nAnd the altar failed to save.\n\n\u2019Gainst the courtier\u2019s murky quirk\n\nThere the pious light implored,\n\nWhen the crown oppressed the kirk,\n\nAnd the sceptre turned a sword.\n\nIn thy halls, the brave and fair\n\nJoyous mingled in the dance,\n\nWhen the trumpet ceased to blare,\n\nAnd the Knight reposed his lance.\n\nThere Philosophy designed\n\nHow to shed her peaceful light\n\nWhere the might of hand and mind\n\nHad but learned to rule the fight.\n\nFor the sceptre, crown, and sword,\n\nThere hath Barras bravely stood;\n\nWhen the Monarch was restored\u2014\n\nAsk yon Vault his gratitude.\n\nThere hath Perseeution's hand\n\nTortured infaney and age;\n\nWhen the Covenanted band\n\nBraved a Popish bigot\u2019s rage.\n\nThen the warder proudly trod,\n\nAs he trolled a seoffing lay;\n\nOr blasphemed the name of God,\n\nAs the eaptive bent to pray.\n\nThere the Hill-man oft hath sighed\n\nTo be free as oeean's swell,\n\nWhile he sadly marked its tide\n\nAs it gaily rose and fell.\n\nAll have passed like morning dew\u2014\n\nSadness sighs in hall and eave,\n\nTo the wailing of the mew,\n\nAnd the murmur of the wave.\n\nThus thy billows, deathless deep,\n\nAs from elime to clime they range,\n\nStill behold, along thy steep,\n\nHuman grandeur doomed to ehange.\n\nBut may Freedom\u2019s anthem swell\n\nFrom the castle to the cot;\n\nTill Oppression\u2019s ruthless cell\n\nShare Dunnottar\u2019s gloomy lot!\n\nThis work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.\n\nPublic domainPublic domainfalsefalse","title":"Covenanters' coronal/Dunnottar Castle","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":314}