That led to church the mounted cavalcade,

And then pull'd up with such a bloody bridal!

Throwing equestrian Hymen on his haunches—

like the family (not silver) branches

That hold the tapers

To light the serious legend of Montrose.—

I like M'Aulay's second-sighted vapors,

As if he could not walk or talk alone,

Without the devil—or the Great Unknown,—

Dalgetty is the dearest of Ducrows!