Steel Lyre-A Poem in a Medieval Scottish tone

Play mae, auld moorlan wise,
Wi’ thy martial steel Lyre,
The enraged Sound of the Thunder,
While ah shall be, again,
In nae unworthy mare,
Wi’ Targe Shield and Dagger,
Rising nae fellow-mortal
Amid thoosan deadly onslaughts,
Ironclad frae the Fire!

H.V.