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Posted by Gerard Cunningham
on:    4 April 2000

Written By Somebody on the Window Of An Inn at Stirling,
On Seeing the Royal Palace in Ruin (1787)
Robert Burns

The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset Ltd, 2002

Here Stuarts once in glory reigned,
And laws for Scotland's weal ordained;
But now unroof'd their palace stands,
Their sceptre's sway'd by other hands;
Fallen indeed, and to the earth
Whence groveling reptiles take their birth.
The injured Stuart line is gone,
A race outlandish fills their throne;
An idiot race, to honour lost;
Who knows them best despise them most.


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