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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Caledonia

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!
Scott.—Last Minstrel, Canto VI. Stanza 2.