“ But the seed we have sown in affliction and tears,
Shall be gathered in gladness in far distant years.
"On the scroll of the Covenant blood must be spilt,
Till its red hues shall cancel the backslider's guilt.
Remember my warning. Around me are some
Who may watch, for they know not the hour He shall come.
"And thou, pretty maiden, rejoice in the truth
Of the lover I link for thy husband of youth.
Be kind while he lives; clasp him close to thy heart;
For the time is not far when the fondest must part. ”

“ Their bibles and birthright to guard with the sword.
These Priests from their kirks by the prelates were driven
A shelter to seek with the fowls of heaven;
The wet mist their covering, the heather their bed.
By the springs of the desert in peril they fed.
At the risk of their lives, with their flocks they would meet,
In the storm and in tempest, in rain and in sleet ”

“ My vision was changed: happy summer had fled
O'er the heath-circled home where the lovers were wed;
Affection's springs bursting from hearts in their prime,
The stream of endearment grew deeper with time. ”

“ When the priest or the prince ehose to ride on their neek;
For churchmen a chariot in splendour who roll'd,
At the poor man’s expense, whose salvation they sold.
From the eourt, over Seotland went forth a decree—
“Let the Kirk of the north to the king bend the knee:
To the prince and his priesthood divine right is given,
A seeptre to sway both in earth and in heaven.
“Let no one presume from the pulpit to read
The Scriptures, save eurates by courtiers decreed;
At their peril, let parents give precepts to youth,
Till prelates and prayer-books put words in their mouth. ”