Excerpt from A Legend of Glencoe: And Other Poems Taken the poet's licence, and am guilty of a wilful anachronism. This was necessary to my plan. The chief design of this legend is to trace the workings of remorse in a superstitious mind, and to illustrate the misery of crime. By means of a poetical tale, I would humbly add my comment to the declaration, that the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest.' The above-mentioned anecdote struck me as furnishing good materials for a purpose of this character; and, by applying it to one of the principal actors in the appalling tragedy of Glencoe, I trust the moral, which it conveys, is rather deepened than otherwise. Of course, it was absolutely necessary that I should introduce into my poem one who was employed in the massacre and I hope to be allowed the licence, yielded times without number, viz., that of narrating as happening to one what in reality happened to another, more especially as the solemn lesson of the incident in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.