...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. * II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires f what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thv rugged strand ! Still, as I...

...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, 6 Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them...

...shall go down - " • :} To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, .„ Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal band ,J y»- i Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! THE Royal Scots,...

...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal baud Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! THE Royal Scots, or Royal...

...Scott, which tell touchingly of the past and the present of the Queen's feelings and experience: — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, — Land of the...each well-known scene, — Think what is now and what has been, — Seems as to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And then...

...infantile flesh and blood may •—might— must — have felt many mysterious emotions from the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." "I have been thinking lately a good deal of Alary Duff. How very odd that I should have been so utterly,...

...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Pnwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. 0 Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of hrown heath and shaggy wood', Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand...

...fortnight had been delightful. He was in the most brilliant spirits. The anticipation of visiting the Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain, and the flood, Deemed to have inspired him ; and thougli he talked more of Burns, and Beattie, and Walter Scott, than...

...— as whose dues not wh>-n poetical description is named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child, Land...heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the Tflood,' must remember that compared with some of ours, Scottish livers are but brooks, and Scottish...

...poetical description is named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse fur a poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,' must remember that compared with some of ours, Scottish rivers are but brooks, and Si ottish forests...