There gave it out, “That all was lost,
“Few left alive of Hawley’s host,
“Charles was driving all before him,
“The very wind and rain fought for him.”
On Janu’ry sixteenth, afternoon,
This battle was fought, but never won:
But on the morn both great and small
Unto Falkirk assembled all,
To view the field and bury the slain;
But which was which, was ill to ken: