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“MAY OUR GALLANT HIGHLAND LADS HAVE JEHOVAH FOR THEIR GUIDE”
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SCOTT, WALTER. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fair copy of a Jacobite song
collected by him, in three verses of four lines each, unpublished in this form. 1 page, small
4to, with integral blank; few scattered separations at folds repaired with tissue, remnants of
prior mounting on terminal page along center vertical fold, horizontal fold through last
line of text with minor ink loss. (AKF)
Np, [1821?]
[3,000/4,000]
“
It’s hame & it’s hame & it’s hame I wad be / I will tarry but a little but return & with thee
be . . . / May the waters stop & stand like a wall on every side / May our gallant Highland
lads have Jehovah for their guide / Dry up the water of Forth as He did the red sea / When
the Israelites gaed hame to their ain country . . . / Plague on the Volunteers to all eternity /
That rose up against their prince in his ain country.”
Inscription on terminal page in an unknown hand, in pencil: “Given by Miss [Margaret
MacLean] Clephane for whom it was written to G.S. Cantley[?]. The three Miss MacLean
Clephanes of Torloisk, Isle of Man, were wards of Sir W. Scott: Margaret . . . Anna . . . [and]
Wilmina.”
Does not appear in
Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
, ed. Robertson, 1904.