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The Battle Of Harlaw--evergreen Version Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Frae Dunidier as I cam throuch	A
Doun by the hill of Banochie	A
Allangst the lands of Garioch	A
Grit pitie was to heir and se	B
The noys and dulesum hermonie	C
That evir that dreiry day did daw	D
Cryand the corynoch on hie	E
Alas alas for the Harlaw	F
	-
I marvlit what the matter meant	G
All folks were in a fiery fariy	H
I wist nocht wha was fae or freind	I
Yet quietly I did me carrie	H
But sen the days of auld King Hairy	H
Sic slauchter was not hard nor sene	C
And thair I had nae tyme to tairy	H
For bissiness in Aberdene	C
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Thus as I walkit on the way	J
To Inverury as I went	G
I met a man and bad him stay	J
Requeisting him to mak me quaint	K
Of the beginning and the event	G
That happenit thair at the Harlaw	F
Then he entreited me to tak tent	G
And he the truth sould to me schaw	A
	-
Grit Donald of the Ysles did claim	L
Unto the lands of Ross sum richt	G
And to the governour he came	L
Them for to haif gif that he micht	G
Wha saw his interest was but slicht	G
And thairfore answerit with disdain	C
He hastit hame baith day and nicht	G
And sent nae bodward back again	C
	-
But Donald richt impatient	G
Of that answer Duke Robert gaif	M
He vow'd to God Omniyotent	G
All the hale lands of Ross to half	M
Or ells be graithed in his graif	M
He wald not quat his richt for nocht	G
Nor be abusit like a slaif	M
That bargin sould be deirly bocht	G
	-
Then haistylie he did command	G
That all his weir men should convene	C
Ilk an well harnisit frae hand	G
To melt and heir what he did mein	C
He waxit wrath and vowit tein	C
Sweirand he wald surpryse the North	N
Subdew the brugh of Aberdene	C
Mearns Angus and all Fyfe to Forth	N
	-
Thus with the weir men of the yles	B
Wha war ay at his bidding bown	C
With money maid with forss and wyls	B
Richt far and neir baith up and doun	C
Throw mount and muir frae town to town	C
Allangst the lands of Ross he roars	B
And all obey'd at his bandown	C
Evin frae the North to Suthren shoars	B
	-
Then all the countrie men did yield	G
For nae resistans durst they mak	O
Nor offer batill in the feild	G
Be forss of arms to beir him bak	O
Syne they resolvit all and spak	O
That best it was for thair behoif	M
They sould him for thair chiftain tak	O
Believing weil he did them luve	M
	-
Then he a proclamation maid	G
All men to meet at Inverness	B
Throw Murray land to mak a raid	G
Frae Arthursyre unto Spey ness	B
And further mair he sent express	B
To schaw his collours and ensenzie	B
To all and sindry mair and less	B
Throchout the bounds of Byne and Enzie	B
	-
And then throw fair Strathbogie land	G
His purpose was for to pursew	B
And whatsoevir durst gainstand	G
That race they should full sairly rew	H
Then he bad all his men be trew	H
And him defend by forss and slicht	G
And promist them rewardis anew	H
And mak them men of mekle micht	G
	-
Without resistans as he said	G
Throw all these parts he stoutly past	G
Where sum war wae and sum war glaid	G
But Garioch was all agast	G
Throw all these feilds be sped him fast	G
For sic a sicht was never sene	H
And then forsuith he langd at last	G
To se the bruch of Aberdene	H
	-
To hinder this prowd enterprise	B
The stout and michty Erl of Marr	H
With all his men in arms did ryse	B
Even frae Curgarf to Craigyvar	H
And down the syde of Don richt far	H
Angus and Mearns did all convene	H
To fecht or Donald came sae nar	H
The ryall bruch of Aberdene	H
	-
And thus the martial Erle of Marr	H
Marcht with his men in richt array	H
Befoir his enemis was aware	H
His banner bauldly did display	H
For weil enewch they kent the way	H
And all their semblance well they saw	B
Without all dangir or delay	H
Come haistily to the Harlaw	H
	-
With him the braif Lord Ogilvy	M
Of Angus sheriff principall	H
The constable of gude Dunde	G
The vanguard led before them all	H
Suppose in number they war small	H
Thay first richt bauldlie did pursew	B
And maid thair faes befor them fall	H
Wha then that race did sairly rew	H
	-
And then the worthy Lord Salton	H
The strong undoubted Laird of Drum	P
The stalwart Laird of Lawristone	H
With ilk thair forces all and sum	P
Panmuir with all his men did cum	P
The provost of braif Aberdene	H
With trumpets and with tuick of drum	P
Came schortly in thair armour schene	H
	-
These with the Earle of Marr came on	H
In the reir ward richt orderlie	H
Thair enemies to sett upon	H
In awfull manner hardilie	H
Togither vowit to live and die	G
Since they had marchit mony mylis	B
For to suppress the tyrannie	H
Of douted Donald of the Ysles	B
	-
But he in number ten to ane	H
Right subtile alang did ryde	G
With Malcomtosch and fell Maclean	H
With all thair power at thair syde	G
Presumeand on their strenth and pryde	G
Without all feir or ony aw	B
Richt bauldie battil did abyde	G
Hard by the town of fair Harlaw	H
	-
The armies met the trumpet sounds	B
The dandring drums alloud did touk	O
Baith armies byding on the bounds	B
Till ane of them the feild sould bruik	O
Nae help was thairfor nane wald jouk	O
Ferss was the fecht on ilka syde	G
And on the ground lay mony a bouk	O
Of them that thair did battil byd	G
	-
With doutsum victorie they dealt	G
The bludy battil lastit lang	O
Each man fits nibours forss thair felt	G
The weakest aft tymes gat the wrang	O
Thair was nae mowis thair them amang	O
Naithing was hard but heavy knocks	B
That eccho mad a dulefull sang	O
Thairto resounding frae the rocks	B
	-
But Donalds men at last gaif back	O
For they war all out of array	H
The Earl of Marris men throw them brak	O
Pursewing shairply in thair way	H
Thair enemys to tak or slay	H
Be dynt of forss to gar them yield	G
Wha war richt blyth to win away	H
And sae for feirdness tint the feild	G
	-
Then Donald fled and that full fast	G
To mountains hich for all his micht	G
For he and his war all agast	G
And ran till they war out of sicht	G
And sae of Ross he lost his richt	G
Thocht mony men with hem he brocht	G
Towards the yles fled day and nicht	G
And all he wan was deirlie bocht	G
	-
This is quod he the richt report	G
Of all that I did heir and knaw	H
Thocht my discourse be sumthing schort	G
Tak this to be a richt suthe saw	B
Contrairie God and the kings law	B
Thair was spilt mekle Christian blude	G
Into the battil of Harlaw	B
This is the sum sae I conclude	G
	-
But yet a bonnie while abide	G
And I sall mak thee cleirly ken	H
What slaughter was on ilkay syde	G
Of Lowland and of Highland men	H
Wha for thair awin haif evir bene	H
These lazie lowns micht weil be spared	G
Chased like deers into their dens	B
And gat their wages for reward	G
	-
Malcomtosh of the clan heid cheif	M
Macklean with his grit hauchty heid	G
With all thair succour and relief	M
War dulefully dung to the deid	G
And now we are freid of thair feid	G
They will not lang to cum again	H
Thousands with them without remeid	G
On Donald's syd that day war slain	H
	-
And on the uther syde war lost	G
Into the feild that dismal day	G
Chief men of worth of mekle cost	G
To be lamentit sair for ay	G
The Lord Saltoun of Rothemay	P
A man of micht and mekle main	H
Grit dolour was for his decay	G
That sae unhappylie was slain	H
	-
Of the best men amang them was	B
The gracious gude Lord Ogilvy	M
The sheriff principal of Angus	B
Renownit for truth and equitie	G
For faith and magnanimitie	G
He had few fallows in the field	G
Yet fell by fatall destinie	H
For he naeways wad grant to yield	G
	-
Sir James Scrimgeor of Duddap knicht	G
Grit constabill of fair Dunde	G
Unto the dulefull deith was dicht	G
The kingis cheif bannerman was he	M
A valiant man of chevalrie	H
Whose predecessors wan that place	B
At Spey with gude King William frie	H
'Gainst Murray and Macduncan's race	B
	-
Gude Sir Allexander Irving	O
The much renowit laird of Drum	P
Nane in his days was bettir sene	H
When they war semblit all and sum	P
To praise him we sould not be dumm	P
For valour witt and worthyness	B
To end his days he ther did cum	P
Whose ransom is remeidyless	B
	-
And thair the knicht of Lawriston	H
Was slain into his armour schene	H
And gude Sir Robert Davidson	H
Wha provost was of Aberdene	H
The knicht of Panmure as was sene	H
A mortall man in armour bricht	G
Sir Thomas Murray stout and kene	H
Left to the warld thair last gude nicht	G
	-
Thair was not sen King Keneths days	B
Sic strange intestine crewel stryf	M
In Scotland sene as ilk man says	B
Whare mony liklie lost thair lyfe	M
Whilk maid divo	M