• From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto VI.

    O CALEDONIA! stern and wild,
    Meet nurse for a poetic child!
    Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
    Land of the mountain and the flood,
    Land of my sires! what mortal hand
    Can e’er untie the filial band
    That knits me to thy rugged strand?
    Still, as I view each well-known scene,
    ...