17 April 2012

holding up Flora MacDonald's grave


Flora saved Bonnie Prince Charlie

she dressed him up like a girl
(her servant, actually)
they stowed away in her daddy's boat
and sailed over the sea to skye
to escape the nasty englishmen who were after his head
(they didn't fancy another scottish king)

she was well travelled
one of the first of the settlers in north carolina
1774

tried her hand at nova scotia
but nothing compared with her lovely scotland
so she returned there for the last ten years of her life
and has a beautiful resting place 
back on the isle of skye


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