Where Roslin’s chiefs uncoffin’d lie,

Each Baron, for a sable shroud, 35

Sheathed in his iron panoply.

Seem’d all on fire, within, around,

Deep sacristy and altar’s pale;

Shone every pillar foliage-bound,

And glimmer’d all the dead men’s mail. 40

Blazed battlement and pinnet high,

Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair—

So still they blaze, when fate is nigh