 | 1847 - 490 pages
...Magazine, and the popular lines of Scott, the " Wizard oftheNorth," beginning with the couplets, " О Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Their influence was great upon me, and I yearned to get among the Buchanans and the Camerons, the clan... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...separated from that country for many years, I can yet apply to it the language of the northern bard — ' ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e're untie that filial band Which binds me to thy rugged strand ? ' ' But the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...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...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 pages
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stem and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...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... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...scale, and of a much sterner character, than English scenes. Well may the Scotch muse exclaim — " О Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Laud of the mountain and the flood ! " We usually speak of Scotch people as if they were all alike... | |
 | 1856 - 604 pages
...not "Auld lang syno," " Roslin Castle," and still more, the sacred, venerable, and ancient melodies "Caledonia, stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child ; Land of brown heath and shnggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ?" And have you not in the enthusiasm of the moment,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pages
...: Per flammas tua pone seqvi vestigia, teqve Eriperc, aut tecum dent mihi fata morí. Caledonia. О Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung ! " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet muse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy...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,... | |
 | N. Leitch - 1851 - 234 pages
...And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and uusuug. 0 Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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... | |
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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! 
