The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'/The Country Of The Camisards
The Country Of The Camisards[1]
- We travelled in the print of olden wars;
- Yet all the land was green;
- And love we found, and peace,
- Where fire and war had been.
- They pass and smile, the children of the sword—
- No more the sword they wield;
- And O, how deep the corn
- Along the battlefield!
- We travelled in the print of olden wars;
- --W. P. Bannatyne[2]
Notes
edit- ↑ The Camisards .. see Camisards.
- ↑ Original RLS poem, later published in Underwoods (1887). W.P. Bannatyne is a pseudo-name for Stevenson. Bannatyne is a Scottish name and could be associated with George Bannatyne (1545-1608) who collected Scottish poems. Memorials of George Bannatyne (1545-1608), was published in 1829 with a memoir by Sir Walter Scott, who also founded Bannatyne Club, devoted to the publication of historical and literary material from Scottish sources.