CALEDONIA! thou land of the mountain and rock, Thou land of the torrent, the pine, and the oak, Though bare are thy cliffs, and though barren thy glens, Yet kind are the hearts and undaunted the clans A foe from abroad, or a tyrant at home, Firm seat of religion, of valour, of truth, Of genius unshackled and free, The Muses have left all the vales of the south, My loved Caledonia, for thee! Sweet land of the bay and the wild-winding deeps, While far in the depth of the blue water sleeps Thou land of the valley, the moor, and the hill, LET them boast of the country gave Patrick his fame, Of the land of the ocean and Anglian name, With the red-blushing roses and shamrock so green: Far dearer to me are the hills of the North, The land of blue mountains, the birth-place of worth; Those mountains where Freedom has fix'd her abode, Those wide-spreading glens where no slave ever trcde, Where blooms the red heather and thistle so green. Though rich be the soil where blossoms the rose, Far-famed are our sires in the battles of yore, O'er the foes of the land of the thistle so green; Oh, dear to our souls as the blessings of heaven, For that land and that freedom our fathers have bled, This song was inserted in Hogg's "Jacobite Relics." The Shepherd states, in introducing it: "This is a modern song, and the only one that is in the volume, to my knowledge. It had no right to be here, for it is a national, not a Jacobite song; but I insert it out of a whim, to vary the theme a little. It is an excellent song, though professedly an imitation, and, when tolerably sung, never misses of having a good effect among a company of Scots people. It has been published as mine in several collections: I wish it were; but I am told that it was written by Mr. Sutherland, land-surveyor, a gentleman of whom I know nothing, save that he is the author of some other popular songs." As nothing else has been discovered of Mr. Sutherland, the song is supposed to have been written by Hogg himself. MY AIN COUNTRIE. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. THE sun rises bright in France, And fair sets he; But he has tint the blythe blink he had In my ain countrie. Oh, gladness comes to many, But sorrow comes to me, As I look o'er the wide ocean Oh, it's not my ain ruin That saddens aye my ee, The bud comes back to summer, And the blossom to the tree; I'm leal to the high Heaven, Which will be leal to me; HAME, HAME, HAME! ALAAN CUNNINGHAM. From Cromek's "Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song." HAME, hame, hame! oh, hame fain wad I be ! Oh, hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie! When the flower is i' the bud, and the leaf is on the tree, Hame, hame, hame! oh, hame fain wad I be! The green leaf o' loyaltie's beginning now to fa'; Hame, hame, hame! oh, hame fain wad I be! Oh, there's nocht now frae ruin my countrie can save, The great now are gane wha attempted to save, Hame, hame, hame! oh, hame fain wad I be ! FAREWELL TO BONNIE TEVIOTDALE. THOMAS PRINGLE, born 1789, died 1834. OUR native land, our native vale, And Cheviot's mountains blue! Farewell, ye hills of glorious deeds, Farewell the blythesome broomy knowes Farewell the hoary haunted hows O'erhung with birk and sloe ! The mossy cave and mouldering tower The martyr's grave and lover's bower We bid a sad farewell! Home of our love, our fathers' home, The sail is flapping on the foam That bears us far from thee! |