Shining i’ the sunny beams,

Grow drumly and dark as it roll’d on the way.

O fickle fortune!

Why this cruel sporting?

Why this perplexing poor sons of a day?

Thy frowns cannot fear me,

Nor smiles cannot chear me,

Since the Flowers of the Forest are a’ wed away.


VERSES
ON JAMES THE IVth, OF SCOTLAND.
Who fell at the Battle of Flodden.