 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...tecum dent mihi fata mori. Caledonia. О 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... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...the bold and romantic scenery of Wales. He travelled in Scotland ; and amid his glowing admiration of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,1 the ' simple lives ' of her ' hardy sons of rustic toil ' led him to feel with her own bard,... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...folds upon Ben An rouses the respondent voices of Benvenue) the strains of a mountain poetry worthy of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' But we must return to the book before us. Its object is ' to give to the Gael, or Highlanders of Scotland,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...Unwept, unhonoured, 'and unsung. II. 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!... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. i n. 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 I what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...received the early part of his education. 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Scotland - 1811 - 268 pages
...THE WEDDING DAY, &c. THE SECOND EDITION. : IN TWO VOLUMES— VOL. I. » Caledonia ! stern and wild, Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and tbe flood. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. O nature! a' thy shews an' form«. To feeling, pensive hearts... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. * II. 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 f what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thv rugged strand... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. 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... | |
 | John Galt - 1813 - 412 pages
...sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. 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 baud Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
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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! 
