Four excellent old songs/The Valiant Scotsmen
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VALIANT SCOTSMEN.
Scotsmen! from your heath-clad mountains,
Arm, descend, and save your land;
From your glens, your lakes & fountains,
Rise, and guard her sea-wash’d strand.
Think on Wallace, Scotland’s pride;
Think on Bruce, and Bannockburn,
Think on the Scot*[1], who lately dy’d;
Him imitate, whom yet ye mourn!
Husbands think on Wives and Children!
Soothe their fears, prevent their woes ;
Yes, tell them, Life’s warm stream ye’ll drain,
Ere they bleed by cruel foes.
Lovers, ye whose hearts are throbbing,
Ye whose souls your passion warms,
Think on foreign soldiers robbing
Thy fair maid of all her charms.
Rise, and Champion-like, defending
Innocence from brutal lust!
On your foes your wrath descending,
Lay them sprauling in the dust.
Ye, in life’s exalted stations,
On to feats of glory lead,
Shew the Chief who plunders nations
Scots nor death, nor danger dread.
Throng and thronger round the banner,
Grasp the spear, the lance, the shield;
Shew proud Gaul our Scottish manner
Is to die, but never yield.
From hill and dale, from glen or grotto,
Round the British Flag resort;
Justify our nation’s motto,
No man touches me unhurt.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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- ↑ * Abercromby.