...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...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! SCOTT. PRAYER. PRATER is the soul's sincere desire, Unutter'd or exprest ; The motion of a hidden...

...sprung, Unwept, nnhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the 61ial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what...

...6ne combination of all the features mentioned by Scott in his description of national landscape : " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Geology. — The principal rocks are whinstone and slate. There are two quarries of the latter within...

...worth, Such objects to no transient ties, No frail and fleeting sympathies, Must evermore give birth. " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the flood ! " As thy own Bard hath sung, " What shall untie the filial band Which knits unto thy rugged strand...

...evinced. 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...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !'' Be it that no palm trees wave her*1, no orange blossoms fling their fragrance to the breeze ; be...

...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.'...

...hour, 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...

...Hebe ; 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...

...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...

...Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand.1 The invulnerability of such sentiments to time, place, and culture is suggested by the works...