I
\nBreathes there the man, with soul so dead,
\nWho never to himself hath said,
\nThis is my own, my native land!
\nWhose heart hath ne\u2019er within him burn\u2019d,
\nAs home his footsteps he hath turn\u2019d,
\nFrom wandering on a foreign strand!
\nIf such there breathe, go, mark him well;
\nFor him no Minstrel raptures swell;
\nHigh though his titles, proud his name,
\nBoundless his wealth as wish can claim;
\nDespite those titles, power, and pelf,
\nThe wretch, concentred all in self,
\nLiving, shall forfeit fair renown,
\nAnd, doubly dying, shall go down
\nTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
\nUnwept, unhonour\u2019d, and unsung.<\/p>\n
II
\nO Caledonia! stern and wild,
\nMeet nurse for a poetic child!
\nLand of brown heath and shaggy wood,
\nLand of the mountain and the flood,
\nLand of my sires! what mortal hand
\nCan e\u2019er untie the filial band,
\nThat knits me to thy rugged strand!
\nStill as I view each well-known scene,
\nThink what is now, and what hath been,
\nSeems as, to me of all bereft,
\nSole friends thy woods and streams were left;
\nAnd thus I love them better still,
\nEven in extremity of ill.
\nBy Yarrow\u2019s streams still let me stray,
\nThough none should guide my feeble way;
\nStill feel the breeze down Ettrick break,
\nAlthough it chill my wither\u2019d cheek;
\nStill lay my head by Teviot Stone,
\nThough there, forgotten and alone,
\nThe Bard may draw his parting groan.<\/p>\n
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