To an Espoused

Never has any house pour'd forth
On east and west, on south and north,
In any age so many men
Powerful alike with sword and pen
As Napier's : from that house you send
Glad tidings, Nora, to your friend,
That such a race not soon shall cease.
But flourish fresh with rich increase ;
And the next season may produce
A scion to a branch of Bruce.