“Poor people, poor people, hard bestead!”
He then awak’d, and thus did say,
“Malcom, dear captain, is it yet day?
“You’ve watch’d too long, now take a sleep,
“And I myself will centry keep.”
“No, said MacLeod, Sir, if you please,
“I know this ground best, take your ease,
“There’s not a house near by two mile,
“Our friends are few into this isle,
“The red coats are not far from us,