"Mr. Maurice O'Connell—The lines are by Miss Holcroft."
"Mr. O'Connell—My son differs with me as to the authorship, but I cannot help that; but there is one thing we cannot dispute about, and that is, the lines are not mine."
Although Mr. Maurice O'Connell undertook to set his father right, he was equally at fault himself, for the lines are Scott's.
In the Lord of the Isles, canto 4, stanza 30, King Robert says:—
"O Scotland! shall it e'er be mine
To wreak thy wrongs in battle line;
To raise my victorhead and see
Thy hills, thy dales, thy people free,—
That glance of bliss is all I crave,
Betwixt my labours and my grave."