Upon the Death of the Viscount of Dundee. Elegies and Epitaphs. John Dryden. 1913. The Poems of John Dryden

John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913.

Elegies and Epitaphs

Upon the Death of the Viscount of Dundee


OH 1 Last and Best of Scots! who did’st maintain
Thy Country’s Freedom from a Foreign Reign;
New People fill the Land, now thou art gone,
New Gods the Temples, and new Kings the Throne.
Scotland and Thee did each in other live,	5
Nor wou’dst thou her, nor cou’d she thee survive.
Farewel! who living didst support the State,
And coud’st not fall but with thy Country’s Fate

Note 1. Text of 1704. [back]