Bonnets and spears and bended bows;

On right, on left, above, below,

Sprung up at once the lurking foe;

From shingles gray their lances start,

The bracken bush sends forth the dart,

The rushes and the willow wand

Are bristling into ax and brand,

And every tuft of broom gives life

To plaided warrior arm’d for strife.

That whistle garrison’d the glen