Records of the Kirk of Scotland / containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

[202] Ibid, f. 70.

[203] The name of the vessel whence this letter bears date, seems to have suggested the following effusion in verse, which, if it do not equal Thomas Campbell’s lines on the same theme, in poetical beauty, has, at least, a priority in point of time to recommend it.

VERSES UPON THE RAINBOW.
By Mr Patrick Hamilton, Minister of Cambuslang.

The Rainbow was to man a signe of peace:

This doth portend much blood—no sign of grace.

God’s Rainbow stayed the floods—O, greatest wonder!

This threats to burn us all with fyrie thunder.

What greife!—that He was hop’t to grace our land,

Should, to destroy it, in his Rainbow stand!

Lord, either make his Rainbow like to the,