History & Politics
From the Gaelic
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
History & Politics
WOE ! woe ! son of the Lowlander,
Why wilt thou leave thine own bonny Border?
Why comest thou hither, disturbing the Highlander,
Wasting the glen that was once in fair order?
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Codex Note
From A Legend of Montrose (1819)
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Scott, Walter. “From the Gaelic.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/170/.
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Scott, Walter. “From the Gaelic.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/170/.
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