Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Bannockburn | | Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | Robert Bruce’s Address to His Army
SCOTS, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled; | |
| Scots, wham Bruce has aften led; | |
| Welcome to your gory bed, | |
| Or to victorie! | |
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| Now ’s the day, and now ’s the hour; | 5 |
| See the front o’ battle lower; | |
| See approach proud Edward’s power: | |
| Chains and slaverie! | |
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| Wha will be a traitor knave? | |
| Wha can fill a coward’s grave? | 10 |
| Wha sae base as be a slave? | |
| Let him turn and flee! | |
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| Wha for Scotland’s king and law | |
| Freedom’s sword will strongly draw, | |
| Freeman stand, or freeman fa’? | 15 |
| Let him follow me! | |
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| By oppression’s woes and pains! | |
| By your sons in servile chains! | |
| We will drain our dearest veins, | |
| But they shall be free! | 20 |
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| Lay the proud usurpers low! | |
| Tyrants fall in every foe! | |
| Liberty ’s in every blow! | |
| Let us do, or die! | | | | |
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