As he's awa wi Charlie;
The dearest blood o' a' thy men
Wad sloken the lowe o' Airlie."
Johnnie Armstrong gives his last "Good Night" in defiance:—
O, how John looked over his left shoulder,
And to his merry men thus spoke he;
"I have asked grace of a graceless face,
No pardon here for you and me."
Mary Hamilton cries from the gallows-tree in a burst of anguish:—
O, little did my mother ken,