Quote #47

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed Or to Victorie! Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour! See approach proud Edward's power- Chains and slaverie!

More from Robert Burns

  1. O Mary, at thy window be! It is the wished, the trysted hour.
  2. Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow- Let us do or die!
  3. Some hae meat and cann eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
  4. The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. For a' that an a' that.
  5. If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it; A chield's aman you takin' notes, And faith he'll prent it.
  6. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that.
  7. O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad: Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.
  8. For a' that and a' that, It's coming yet, for a' that, That man to man the world o'er Shall brothers be for a' that.

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