Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems

by William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Like a lion from his den,

And rode away across the hills

To Charlie and his men,

With the valiant Scottish cavaliers,

All of the olden time!

VI.

He was the first that bent the knee

When the STANDARD waved abroad,

He was the first that charged the foe

On Preston's bloody sod;