...ruin shows, Where beneath the showery west The mighty kings of the three fair realms are laid, And foes, perhaps, together now they rest, No slaves revere them and no wars invade ; Yet frequent now, at midnight's solemn hour, The rifted tombs their yawning cells unfold, And forth the monarchs stalk with...

...his beautiful Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlands, speaks of lona as the place " where IxMieath the showery west The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid." The distinction which lona enjoyed as a place of sepulture may have been acquired partly from the veneration...

...bones the delver with his spade upthrows, And culls them, wondering, from the hallowed ground ! 145 Or thither, where, beneath the showery west, The mighty...realms are laid ; Once foes, perhaps, together now they jest,"1 No slaves revere them, and no wars invade : Yet frequent now, at midnight solemn hour, iso...

...russet canopy." C. " The man I do assure you is not here." 7. " Or thither, where beneath the show'ry West The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid; Once foes, perhaps, together now they rest." 8. "Nothing can come of nothing." * 376. " Twa' dogs that were na thrang at home, Forgathered ance...

...preceded him, all doubtless as powerful in their day, but now unknown — carent quia vate eacro. * Once foes perhaps, together now they rest ; No slaves revere them, and no wars invade.' A few weeks' labour of Shakespeare, an obscure player, has done more for the memory of Macbeth than...

...storehouse of his predecessors. And guardian of their bones." And Collins describes lona as the place where, " Beneath the showery West, The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid." The cause of this may be found in an ancient Gaelic prophecy, thus rendered — " Seven years before...

...upthrows, And culls them, wondering, from the hallowed ground ! 1 The chapel of St. Flannan. Or thither1, where, beneath the showery west, The mighty kings...revere them, and no wars invade : Yet frequent now, at midnight's solemn hour, The rifted mounds their yawning cells unfold, And forth the monarchs stalk...

...from the hallowed ground ! 1 The chapel of St. Flannan. Or thither1, where, beneath the showery \vcs:, The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid ; Once...revere them, and no wars invade : Yet frequent now, at midnight's solemn hour, The rifted mounds their yawning cells unfold, And forth the monarchs stalk...

...shows, In whose small vaults a pigmy folk is found, Whose bones the delver with his spade upthrows, Or thither, where, beneath the showery west, The mighty...revere them, and no wars invade : Yet frequent now, at midnight's solemn hour, The rifted mounds their yawning cells unfold, And forth the monarchs stalk...

...delver with his spade upthrows, And culls them, wondering, from the hallowed ground! Or thither 1 , where, beneath the showery west, The mighty kings...revere them, and no wars invade : Yet frequent now, at midnight's solemn hour, The rifted mounds their yawning cells unfold, And forth the monarchs stalk...