A Verse from Rorie Gill

It was not the eagle, nor yet the fox,
That raised the echo among the rocks:
Oh! It was the searching bloodhound’s yell,
And tramping of horsemen down the dell,
And the shouts of many a forrester brave;—
Ha! Now they reach the robber’s cave.
And ere the guard, with his bugle’s sound,
Can warn his merry men lurking round,
Knockmains brave lord, who gallantly sped
Baldoon’s huge adder—his country’s dread—
Explores the robber’s cave at will,
And springs unlooked for on Rorie Gill.—

Source

Rorie Gill by Joseph Train in John Nicholson Historical and Traditional Tales in Prose and Verse, Connected with the South of Scotland, Original and Select (1843), p. 148

Notes

Walter Scott, in a letter to Joseph Train dated 7th March 1816, writes that Rorie Gill is quite a stranger to me and I am glad to be made known to him in the modem dress in which you clothed him with considerable spirit. Assuming that this refers to the poem quoted above, Train's mention of the Adder o' Baldoon predates the entry in Mactaggart's (1824) by at least eight years.
This poem is also printed in John Patterson Memoir of Joseph Train, F.S.A. SCOT., The Antiquarian Correspondent of Sir Walter Scott (1857), p. 145.
The Sir Walter Scott Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh: A Guide to Parts One, Two and Three of the Harvester Microform Collection, Part 1 (1987, p.22) mentions Rorie Gill, attributed to Joseph Train.