 | 1847 - 490 pages
...oftheNorth," beginning with the couplets, " 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." Their influence was great upon me, and I yearned to get among the Buchanans and the Camerons, the clan... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...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 hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | 1870 - 420 pages
...Yet I came back to my own New England with a fonder love and a higher appreciation than ever. "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... | |
 | Sierra Club - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) - 1911 - 414 pages
...naturally by his love of the mists, clouds and fogs and all out-of-doors life. He was born in that " 'Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. . . . ' and his fellow townsman, Sir Walter might have added " 'Land of engineers and much east wind.'... | |
 | England - 1880 - 840 pages
...that I am come back not only to the land of beautiful natural characteristics, not only to the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. Land of the mountain and the flood '— (applause) — but I am come back to that which is better still, to the land which has that prerogative... | |
 | 1902 - 668 pages
...; the average Highlander, especially if an exile, would revel in pictorial reminders of the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood," the Norwegian in the scenery of his rugged Fjords, trie Dutchman in the flat and foggy picturesqueness... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 333 pages
...sprung, Unwept, unhonor'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. Here we have a whole nexus of motifs: the wanderer in danger of losing native roots, nostalgia for... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...wandering on a foreign strand!. . . 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!... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Literary Collections - 2003 - 258 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 hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!... | |
 | Scottish Natural Heritage, Centre for Mountain Studies - Business & Economics - 2005 - 424 pages
...Lay of the Last Minstrel (1 805): Oh 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!... | |
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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! 
