"Martyrs, what of the night? -

"Martyrs, what of the night? -

Nay, is it night with you yet?

We, for our part, we forget

What night was, if it were.

The loud red mouths of the fight

Are silent and shut where we are.

In our eyes the tempestuous air

Shines as the face of a star."

- Coleridge, A Watch In The Night (excerpt)

Painting: "The Martyr of the Solway" (1871; Oil on canvas; 56.5 x 60.3 cm) by John Everett Millais

Add: Margaret Wilson (c. 1667 – 11 May 1685) was a young Scottish Covenanter from Wigtown in Scotland who was executed by drowning for refusing to swear an oath declaring James VII of Scotland (James II of England) as head of the church. She died along with Margaret McLachlan. The two Margarets were known as the Wigtown Martyrs. Wilson became the more famous of the two because of her youth. As a teenager, her faith unto death became celebrated as part of the martyrology of Presbyterian churches.

Millais’s wife Effie was brought up in Perthshire and may have encouraged his interest in Scottish history.