Faithful to trust is the lion-like host
Whom the dawn of their youth doth inure
To hunger's worst ire, and to action's bold fire,
And to ranging the wastes of the moor.
Accustom'd so well to each enterprise snell,
Be the chase or the warfare their quarry;
Aye ever they fight the best, for the right
To the strike of the swords, when they hurry.
GLOSSARY.
Ahin', behind.
Auld-farrant, sagacious, cunning.
Baudrons, a cat.
Beltane, the 1st of May.
Bield, shelter.
Bink, a bank of earth.
Birk, birch.