But the fire maun burn, and I maun quake,

And the hour is gone that will never come back.

III.

And when they come to Craigyburn wood,

The Queen of the Fairies spoke:—

“Come, bind your steeds to the rushes so green,

And dance by the haunted oak:

I found the acorn on Heshbon-hill,

In the nook of a palmer’s poke,

A thousand years since; here it grows!”