The later poems of John Clare 1837-1864 ... General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger |
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[O'er Scotland's vales and mountains high]
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O'er Scotland's vales and mountains highI've tented sheep and herded kye
Where every bush and every tree
Was health and happiness to me
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A sunday song of harmony
And every day on hills and dales
'Twas harmony in all her vales
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The sea-waves, and the ocean sprayThe river shining far away
The cataract bursting o'er the rock
In silver foam with thunder shock
Where Scotlands scenes and Scotlands pride
And in my boyhood deified
I lov'd them all and every fame
That wore the tartan of its name
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I love her rivers and her floodsHer mountains valleys, and her woods
I love her heaths of goss and heather
Her mountains mists and cloudy weather
The spreading hills all dark wi' kye
The muircocks where they wirring fly
Scotland I love thy every scene
Thy Bannockburn and Bonny Jean
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