BY LOUIS LITTLEFAIR

(On the Battle of Stirling Bridge, September 11, 1297)

Come see the plain of Stirling,

Come see the English, thousands dead.

Come see the hacked up bodies

Of the hated Southeron,

As the Forth runs bloody red.

Come see the glory of the Ochil Hills,

Where common kinsmen stood proud

Upon this day,

As a nation now united cried, ‘For Liberty’,

For Scotland, for Wallace and Moray.

Come see the Scottish nation rise

In righteous might,

To live and die as free-born Scots,

Not slaves to home-grown

Scottish magnates and lairds,

Nor Plantagenet king or knight.

Come see the plain of Stirling,

Come see the English, thousands dead.

Come see how free-born Scottish patriots

Showed a future King of scotland,

How Scotland should be led.

The beginning

(Previously published in the booklet The Pride of Lions, Heart and Soul by Louis Littlefair, released in 1999).