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JACOBITE RELICS.
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Our halls will rejoice with friendship and cheer,
And our hearts be as free from reproach—as from fear;
The hungry adventurer shall pine for the meal,
He long lapped from the life stream of Grana Weal.5

Ah! know'st thou the maiden all beauteous and fair,
Whom her merciless foes have left plunder'd and bare?—
The force of my emblem too well canst thou feel.
For that suffering lorn one is our Grana Weal!

But the nobles shall bring back the true king again.
And justice long slighted will come in his train;
The bullets shall fly—and the cannons shall peal—
And our Charles victorious espouse Grana Weal!