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Thus of old the Douglas did: / He left his land as he was bid / With the royal heart of Robert the Bruce / In a golden case with a golden lid, / To carry the same to the Holy Land; / By which we see and understand / That that was the place to carry a heart / At loyalty and love's command, / And that was the case to carry it in.
The Douglas had not far to win / Before he came to the land of Spain, / Where long a holy war had been / Against the too-victorious Moor; / And there his courage could not endure / Not to strike a blow for God / Before he made his errand sure.