The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

Scenes of Long Ago 6i
Thus, then, was buried, with seemly respect, the Last
of the Pensioners. Their homes, high and low, were
gradually filled by a new generation, who knew little of
heroic sentiment, having immediate interests which widely
separated them from the age of military glory to which the
Pensioners belonged. But so long as the old Chief
remained, there was one at least who cherished that illus-
trious past, who, having been familiar with many of its
\'eterans among his tenants and friends, delighted, when in
hoary age, to recount the xaliant fame of those
" Who fought right on, with conquering banners o'er them,
From Torres Vedras to the Pyrenees."