Sketches in verse at home and abroad : and from the war of the Nile in ten cantos / by John McCosh.
- John McCosh
- Date:
- [1882]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sketches in verse at home and abroad : and from the war of the Nile in ten cantos / by John McCosh. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![w CANTO I] at home and a be 0ad. LX ‘ But though no ticket we have got, By purchase, favour, or by lot. We’ll find some cosy standing-spot To see her in the distance. The Salisbury Crags we’ll speel. From which we’ll see a’ unco weel. And />iece we’ll carry in a creel If we are in existence. LXI ‘ Losh, Donald ! she is unco gude. And Leddy is of Holyrood ! And truth she comes of Scottish blude. Of Scotia’s royal line. And cousin-like, she likes the Scots, And in the Highlands lives in cots, Like yours or mine, and tends her pots. And can on haggis dine. LXII ‘ I’m not so young as I hae been. When I was wedded to my Jean, And in the ranks, like a new preen, Stood in the Forty-twa. But my twa boys are volunteers. Both sturdy fellows for their years. Aye ! fit for baronets or peers. The bravest of the braw!](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28709913_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
