O last and best of Scots! who didst maintain <br />Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign; <br />New people fill the land now thou art gone, <br />New gods the temples, and new kings the throne. <br />Scotland and thou did each in other live; <br />Nor wouldst thou her, nor could she thee survive. <br />Farewell! who, dying, didst support the state, <br />And couldst not fall but with thy country's fate.<br /><br />John Dryden<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/upon-the-death-of-the-viscount-of-dundee/
