And calleth to his men,

“Yonder she comes, this wierdly Witch,

This spirit of the glen!

“Come, rank your master up behind,

This serpent to belay;

I’ll let you hear me put her down,

In grand polemic way.”

Swift came the maid o’er strath and stron—

Nae dantonit dame was she,—

Until the King her path withstood