INSTEAD of a Song, boys, Ill give you a Toast;
Heres to the memory of those on the twelfth that we lost!
That we lost, did I say?nay, by Heavn, that we found;
For their fame it will last while the world goes round.
The next in succession Ill give yous THE KING!
Whoeer would betray him, on high may he swing!
And heres the grand fabric, our free CONSTITUTION,
As built on the base of our great Revolution!
And longer with Politics not to be crammd,
Be ANARCHY cursd, and TYRANNY damnd!
And who would to LIBERTY eer prove disloyal,
May his son be a hangmanand he his first trial!
408. Commemoration of Rodneys Victory
written byRobert Burns
© Robert Burns