It glared on Roslin's castled rock,

It ruddied, all the copsewood glen;

'Twas seen from Deyden's groves of oak,

And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.

Seemed all on fire that chapel proud,

Where Roslin's chiefs uncoffined lie,

Each baron, for a sable shroud,

Sheathed in his iron panoply.

Seemed all on fire within, around,

Deep sacristy and altar's pale;