Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Killiecrankie | | In the Pass of Killicranky | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | An Invasion Being Expected, October, 1803
SIX thousand veterans, practised in war’s game, | |
| Tried men, at Killicranky were arrayed | |
| Against an equal host that wore the plaid, | |
| Shepherds and herdsmen. Like a whirlwind came | |
| The Highlanders, the slaughter spread like flame; | 5 |
| And Garry, thundering down his mountain-road, | |
| Was stopped, and could not breathe beneath the load | |
| Of the dead bodies. ’T was a day of shame | |
| For them whom precept and the pedantry | |
| Of cold, mechanic battle do enslave. | 10 |
| O for a single hour of that Dundee, | |
| Who on that day the word of onset gave! | |
| Like conquest would the men of England see, | |
| And her foes find a like inglorious grave. | | | | |
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