And flight ne’er stained its fold.”

“Sweet bard, another now I see,

High o’er a host it glows,

Tell whether it has ever shone

O’er fields of slaughtered foes?”

“That gory flag is Cailt’s,” quoth he,

“It proudly peers in sight;

It won its fame on many a field

In fierce and bloody fight.”

“Sweet bard, another still I see;