O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of…

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.

Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of Minstrel · 1805

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805, canto 6, st. 2.

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