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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SCOTLAND
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Ould Scotlands bonny woods and braesAnd streams that rin a hundred ways
Where lassies show their tartan claes
Your hills are doubly dear
Your hills in clouds that leave the e'e
Your rivers rinning to the sea
Perpetual green your valleys be
An Eden a' the year
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Land where the thistle's bleum sojournsO' Alice Nichol Jeannie Burns
Where sang an' beauty a' sojourns
Companions a' the year
Land o' the thistle and white rose
Where milk an' mountain hinney flows
Where heather like an ocean grows
A world without a' peer—
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Land o' the honest nun forsakesThe whiskey gill and nodden cakes
Which Scottish lassies brews and makes
A' gude their health shall be
May peace gleam round the thistles bloom
And God send a' the ills that cum
Oer a' thy hills i' gleam and gloom
And Scotland will be free
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