Poems you ought to know . i8i SCOTS WHA BY ROBERT BURNS. A friend of Burns states this stirringpoem was written during a frightful stormin the wilds of Glenken, in Galloway. Itwas written in September, 1793. Scots, wha hae wi Wallace bled,Scots, wham Bruce has often led;Welcome to your gory bed,Or to victorie! Nows the day, and nows the hour;See the front o battle lour;See approach proud Edwards powr—Chains and slaverie! Wha will be a traitor-knave?Wha can fill a cowards grave?Wha sae base as be a slave?Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotlands king and lawFreedoms sword will strongly dra
Poems you ought to know . i8i SCOTS WHA BY ROBERT BURNS. A friend of Burns states this stirringpoem was written during a frightful stormin the wilds of Glenken, in Galloway. Itwas written in September, 1793. Scots, wha hae wi Wallace bled,Scots, wham Bruce has often led;Welcome to your gory bed,Or to victorie! Nows the day, and nows the hour;See the front o battle lour;See approach proud Edwards powr—Chains and slaverie! Wha will be a traitor-knave?Wha can fill a cowards grave?Wha sae base as be a slave?Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotlands king and lawFreedoms sword will strongly draw,Freeman stand, or freeman him follow me! By oppressions woes and pains!By our sons in servile chains!We will drain our dearest they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low!Tyrants fall in every foe!Libertys in every blow!Let us do or die! 182 JERUSALEM, THE GOLDEN. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, BY JOHN M. NEALE^ Jerusalem, the golden, With milk and honey blest!Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed; Fv^I
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