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Walter Scott - Lines On Captain Wogan. To An Oak Tree
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To an Oak Tree, In the Churchyard of —-, In the Highlands of Scotland, Said to Mark the Grave of Captain Wogan, Killed in 1649.

Emblem of England`s ancient faith, 
Full proudly may thy branches wave, 
Where loyalty lies low in death, 
And valour fills a timeless grave. 

And thou, brave tenant of the tomb! 
Repine not if our clime deny, 
Above thine honoured sod to bloom, 
The flowerets of a milder sky. 

These owe their birth to genial May; 
Beneath a fiercer sun they pine, 
Before the winter storm decay—
And can their worth be type of thine? 

No! for `mid storms of Fate opposing, 
Still higher swelled thy dauntless heart, 
And, while Despair the scene was closing, 
Commenced thy brief but brilliant part. 

Twas then thou sought`st on Albyn`s hill, 
(When England`s sons the strife resigned), 
A rugged race, resisting still, 
And unsubdued though unrefined. 

Thy death`s hour heard no kindred wail, 
No holy knell thy requiem rung; 
Thy mourners were the plaided Gael; 
Thy dirge the clamorous pibroch sung. 

Yet who, in Fortune`s summer-shine, 
To waste life`s longest term away, 
Would change that glorious dawn of thine, 
Though darkened ere its noontide day? 

Be thine the Tree whose dauntless boughs
Brave summer`s drought and winter`s gloom! 
Rome bound with oak her patriots` brows, 
As Albyn shadows Wogan`s tomb.
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