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The Bulletin
Fix this text“The Bulletin,” VoL 64.—N0. 3314
Fix this textWednesday, August 18, 1943
Fix this textPrice 6d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney. N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as > Newspaper.
Fix this textJeppelts
Fix this textDUNNOTTAR CASTLE.
Fix this textKTOT far from Stonehaven in Scotland is the town of Dunnottar,
Fix this textIN in whose churchyard Sir Walter Scott met Robert Paterson, the
Fix this textstonemason original of “Old Mortality.” Near this place, on
Fix this texta mighty rock overlooking the grey North Sea, Dunnottar Castle
Fix this texthas stood since the seventh century. Erected by, and in the early
Fix this textdays occupied by, the Keiths, earls marischal, Dunnottar is famed
Fix this textin Scottish history as the hiding place of the Regalia of Scotland.
Fix this textBut now the ghosts of its storied past are all that remain. Its
Fix this textfighting men and staunch heroic women are
Fix this textAll fled for ever, leaving nought
Fix this textSave lonely walls in min green,
Fix this textWhich dimly led my wandering thought
Fix this textTo moments that have been.
Fix this textDuring the wars of the Commonwealth, Cromwell laid siege to
Fix this textDunnottar, but the castle held out for several months until “the
Fix this textHonours of Scotland” were secretly removed to Kinneff Church
Fix this textnear by. The saving of the Regalia is commemorated m an jnscnp-
Fix this texttion over the fireplace in one of the castle rooms, w ic we
Fix this textgrandly restored by the late Lord Cowdray. Well might the Scot-
Fix this texttish poet Thomas Bridson have written of Dunnottar as well a.
Fix this textof Dunolly:
Fix this textYet proudly ’rnid the tide of years
Fix this textThou lift’st on high thine airy form,
Fix this textScene of primeval hopes and fears
Fix this textSlow yielding to the storm.
Fix this textThe walls of this stout old stronghold give credit to those who
Fix this textstrove so courageously to preserve the symbols of Scottish indepen-
Fix this textdence—-crown, sceptre and sword—which now rest serenely in
Fix this textthe Jewell Room at Edinburgh Castle.
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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