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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831 by Various
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When Percelly weareth a hat,
All Pembrokeshire shall weet of that.


SCOTLAND.--STIRLINGSHIRE--BANNOCKBURN, 1314.

"Maidens of England, sore may ye mourn,
For your lemans ye've lost at Bannockburn"


ROXBURGH.

"Some of his skill he taught to me,
And, warrior, I could say to thee,
The words that cleft Eildon Hills in three,
And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone."
_Scott._


WESTERN ISLES.

Seven years before that awful day,
When time shall be no more,
A watery deluge will o'ersweep
Hibernia's mossy shore.
The green clad Isla too shall sink,
While with the great and good,
Columba's happy isle shall rear
Her towers above the flood.

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