Highlander's Farewell Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

After the battle of Culloden in 1746, the young pretender
Bonnie Prince Charlie fled back to France leaving
Scotland at the mercy of British redcoats

Alone in darkness he stands
Unseen behind rocks on a beach
Washed, worn by salty tides
Bidding adieu to his bonnie prince
Who fled the bloody battlefield
Betraying Scotland's precious flowers
Men and boys - youngest only nine
Laying massacred among the heather.
Small of stature, immense in clan pride
Blood-splattered, kilt in tatters
Highlander waits for the dawn.
Men, like shadows creep across the shingle
Huddled against the cold in rowing boat
As it pulls away from shore into the mist
Where a French warship waits, sails set.
Highlander remains alone on the beach
In tears raises claymore in salute
Shouting into the howling wind,
"Will ye nay come back again? "