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I	A
Sweet Teviot on thy silver tide	B
The glaring bale fires blaze no more	C
No longer steel clad warrior ride	B
Along thy wild and willow'd shore	C
Where'er thou wind'st by dale or hill	D
All all is peaceful all is still	D
As if thy waves since Time was born	E
Since first they roll'd upon the Tweed	F
Had only heard the shepherd's reed	F
Nor started at the bugle horn	E
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II	A
Unlike the tide of human time	G
Which though it change in ceaseless flow	H
Retains each grief retains each crime	G
Its earliest course was doom'd to know	H
And darker as it downward bears	I
Is stain'd with past and present tears	I
Low as that tide has ebb'd with me	J
It still reflects to Memory's eye	A
The hour my brave my only boy	K
Fell by the side of great Dundee	J
Why when the volleying musket play'd	L
Against the bloody Highland blade	L
Why was not I beside him laid	L
Enough he died the death of fame	M
Enough he died with conquering Graeme	M
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III	A
Now over Border dale and fell	N
Full wide and far was terror spread	O
For pathless marsh and mountain cell	N
The peasant left his lowly shed	O
The frighten'd flocks and herds were pent	P
Beneath the peel's rude battlement	Q
And maids and matrons dropp'd the tear	R
While ready warriors seiz'd the spear	S
From Branksome's towers the watchman's eye	A
Dun wreaths of distant smoke can spy	A
Which curling in the rising sun	T
Show'd southern ravage was begun	T
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IV	-
Now loud the heedful gate ward cried	B
'Prepare ye all for blows and blood	U
Watt Tinlinn from the Liddel side	B
Comes wading through the flood	U
Full oft the Tynedale snatchers knock	V
At his lone gate and prove the lock	V
It was but last St Barnabright	U
They sieg'd him a whole summer night	U
But fled at morning well they knew	W
In vain he never twang'd the yew	W
Right sharp has been the evening shower	X
That drove him from his Liddel tower	X
And by my faith ' the gate ward said	U
'I think 'twill prove a Warden Raid '	-
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V	-
While thus he spoke the bold yeoman	T
Enter'd the echoing barbican	T
He led a small and shaggy nag	Y
That through a bog from hag to hag	Y
Could bound like any Billhope stag	Y
It bore his wife and children twain	T
A half clothed serf was all their train	T
His wife stout ruddy and dark brow'd	U
Of silver brooch and bracelet proud	U
Laugh'd to her friends among the crowd	U
He was of stature passing tall	Z
But sparely form'd and lean withal	Z
A batter'd morion on his brow	A2
A leather jack as fence enow	T
On his broad shoulders loosely hung	B2
A border axe behind was slung	B2
His spear six Scottish ells in length	C2
Seem'd newly dyed with gore	C
His shafts and bow of wondrous strength	C2
His hardy partner bore	C
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VI	-
Thus to the Ladye did Tinlinn show	H
The tidings of the English foe	H
'Belted Will Howard is marching here	D2
And hot Lord Dacre with many a spear	S
And all the German hackbut men	T
Who have long lain at Askerten	T
They cross'd the Liddel at curfew hour	X
And burn'd my little lonely tower	X
The fiend receive their souls therefore	C
It had not been burnt this year and more	C
Barn yard and dwelling blazing bright	U
Serv'd to guide me on my flight	U
But I was chas'd the livelong night	U
Black John of Akeshaw and Fergus Graeme	M
Fast upon my traces came	M
Until I turn'd at Priesthaugh Scrogg	B2
And shot their horses in the bog	B2
Slew Fergus with my lance outright	U
I had him long at high despite	U
He drove my cows last Fastern's night '	-
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VII	H
Now weary scouts from Liddesdale	Z
Fast hurrying in confirm'd the tale	Z
As far as they could judge by ken	T
Three hours would bring to Teviot's strand	U
Three thousand armed Englishmen	T
Meanwhile full many a warlike band	U
From Teviot Aill and Ettrick shade	U
Came in their Chief's defence to aid	U
There was saddling and mounting in haste	U
There was pricking o'er moor and lea	Z
He that was last at the trysting place	E2
Was but lightly held of his gay ladye	W
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VIII	H
From fair St Mary's silver wave	H
From dreary Gamescleugh's dusky height	U
His ready lances Thirlestane brave	H
Array'd beneath a banner bright	U
The treasured fleur de luce he claims	F2
To wreathe his shield since royal James	F2
Encamp'd by Fala's mossy wave	H
The proud distinction grateful gave	H
For faith 'mid feudal jars	G2
What time save Thirlestane alone	T
Of Scotland's stubborn barons none	T
Would march to southern wars	H2
And hence in fair remembrance worn	T
Yon sheaf of spears his crest has borne	T
Hence his high motto shines reveal'd	U
' Ready aye ready' for the field	U
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IX	H2
An aged Knight to danger steel'd	U
With manyaa moss trooper came on	T
And azure in a golden field	U
The stars and crescent graced his shield	U
Without the bend of Murdieston	T
Wide lay his lands round Oakwood tower	X
And wide round haunted Castle Ower	X
High over Borthwick's mountain flood	U
His wood embosom'd mansion stood	U
In the dark glen so deep below	Z
The herds of plunder'd England low	Z
His bold retainers' daily food	U
And bought with danger blows and blood	U
Marauding chief his sole delight	U
The moonlight raid the morning fight	U
Not even the Flower of Yarrow's charms	H2
In youth might tame his rage for arms	H2
And still in age he spurn'd at rest	U
And still his brows the helmet press'd	U
Albeit the blanched locks below	Z
Were white as Dinlay's spotless snow	Z
Five stately warriors drew the sword	U
Before their father's band	U
A braver knight than Harden's lord	U
Ne'er belted on a brand	U
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X	H2
Scotts of Eskdale a stalwart band	U
Came trooping down the Todshaw hill	Z
By the sword they won their land	U
And by the sword they hold it still	Z
Hearken Ladye to the tale	Z
How thy sires won fair Eskdale	Z
Earl Morton was lord of that valley fair	X
The Beattisons were his vassals there	X
The Earl was gentle and mild of mood	U
The vassals vere warlike and fierce and rude	U
High of heart and haughty of word	U
Little they reck'd of a tame liege lord	U
The Earl into fair Eskdale came	M
Homage and seignory to claim	M
Of Gilbert the Galliard a heriot he sought	U
Saying 'Give thy best steed as a vassal ought '	-
'Dear to me is my bonny white steed	U
Oft has he help d me at pinch of need	U
Lord and Earl though thou be I trow	Z
I can rein Bucksfoot better than thou '	-
Word on word gave fuel to fire	X
Till so highly blazed the Beattison's ire	X
But that the Earl the flight had ta'en	T
The vassals there their lord had slain	T
Sore he plied both whip and spur	X
As he urged his steed through Eskdale muir	X
And it fell down a weary weight	U
Just on the threshold of Branksome gate	U
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XI	H2
The Earl was a wrathful man to see	H2
Full fain avenged would he be	H2
In haste to Branksome's Lord he spoke	B2
Saying 'Take these traitors to thy yoke	B2
For a cast of hawks and a purse of gold	U
All Eskdale I'll sell thee to have and hold	U
Beshrew thy heart of the Beattisons' clan	T
If thou leavest on Eske a landed man	T
But spare Woodkerrick's lands alone	T
For he lent me his horse to escape upon '	-
A glad man then was Branksome bold	U
Down he flung him the purse of gold	U
To Eskdale soon he spurr'd amain	T
And with him five hundred riders has ta'en	T
He left his merrymen in the mist of the hill	Z
And bade them hold them close and still	Z
And alone he wended to the plain	T
To meet with the Galliard and all his train	T
To Gilbert the Galliard thus he said	U
'Know thou me for thy liege lord and head	U
Deal not with me as with Morton tame	M
For Scotts play best at the roughest game	M
Give me in peace my heriot due	U
Thy bonny white steed or thou shalt rue	U
If my horn I three times wind	U
Eskdale shall long have the sound in mind '	-
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XII	H2
Loudly the Beattison laugh'd in scorn	T
'Little care we for thy winded horn	T
Ne'er shall it be the Galliard's lot	U
To yield his steed to a haughty Scott	U
Wend thou to Branksome back on foot	U
With rusty spur and miry boot '	-
He blew his bugle so loud and hoarse	H2
That the dun deer started at fair Craikcross	H2
He blew again so loud and clear	X
Through the grey mountain mist there did lances appear	X
And the third blast rang with such a din	T
That the echoes answer'd	U