The sons of Glen Orchy and Rannoch

Sleep sound by the slow-moving Scheldt,

And the bones of the men of Loch Fannich

Are white on the veldt.

But the Lows and Lochmaben and Gairloch

Still march to the battle array,

And the fighters from many a fair loch,

Like their fathers, leap forth to the fray;

Red flame tears the darkness asunder

Where the curtain of battle is drawn,