Walter Scott

“ Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing,
⁠Come from the glen of the buck and the roe:
Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing;
⁠Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow.
Trumpets are sounding, war-steeds are bounding;
⁠Stand to your arms, and march in good order ”

“ The "Pibroch of Donald the Black" is a very ancient pibroch belonging to Clan Macdonald, and supposed to refer to the expedition of Donald Balloch, who, in 1431, launched from the isles with a considerable force, invaded Lochaber, and at Inverlochy defeated and put to flight the Earls of Mar and Caithness, though at the head of an army superior to his own. ”

“ Written by Sir Walter Scott, for Campbell's Albyn's Antliology, to a Gaelic air, called, "Cha teid mis a chaoidh," (I will never go with him.) "In the original Gaelic," says the author, "the Lady makes protestations that she will not go with the Red Earl's son, until the swan should build in the cliff, and the eagle in the lake—until one mountain should change places with another, and so forth. ”