| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | Scotland | | By James Linen |
| | | MY country! My country! I’ll love thee forever! | |
| Pair land of my birth; I forget thee will never: | |
| Though severed from thee by the deep-heaving main, | |
| Hope’s whispers still tell me I’ll see thee again— | |
| Truth reigning triumphant, by shores uninvaded, | 5 |
| Thy beauty unshorn, and thy Thistle unfaded. | |
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| When Summer makes Nature her glories disclose, | |
| When Winter is robed in her mantle of snows, | |
| And withers the flowerets that deck the gay scene, | |
| Thy Thistle stands forth in its garment of green. | 10 |
| Proud emblem of freedom! disdaining to crouch, | |
| The tyrant reels back at its deep-piercing touch; | |
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| He cannot, he dare not, its beauty deform, | |
| For boldly it stands ’mid the tempest and storm. | |
| Oh! long may it wave on the green mountain side, | 15 |
| Unfading as Truth in the strength of its pride: | |
| Then spare it, O Time, from the wrecks of decay, | |
| Till Nature expires and the hills melt away. | | | | |
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