| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Scotland |
| | | Stands Scotland where it did? Shakespeare. | 1 |
| | Hear, Land o Cakes and brither Scots |
| Frae Maiden Kirk to Johnny Groats. |
Burns. | 2 |
| | Give me but one hour of Scotland; |
| Let me see it ere I die. |
Wm. E. Aytoun. | 3 |
| That garret of the earththat knuckle end of Englandthat land of Calvin, oatcakes and sulphur. Sydney Smith. | 4 |
| From scenes like these old Scotias grandeur springs. Burns. | 5 |
| | O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! |
| For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent! |
| Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil |
| Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content. |
Burns. | 6 |
| | The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride, |
| True is the charge, nor by themselves denied, |
| Are they not, then, in strictest reason clear, |
| Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here. |
Churchill. | 7 |
| | Scots, wha hae wi Wallace bled, |
| Scots, wham Bruce has aften led; |
| Welcome to your gory bed, |
| Or to victory! |
Burns. | 8 |
| | 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, |
| Land of my sires! what mortal hand |
| Can eer untie the filial band, |
| That knits me to thy rugged strand! |
Scott. | 9 |
| | And though, as you remember, in a fit |
| Of wrath and rhyme, when juvenile and curly, |
| I railed at Scots to show my wrath and wit, |
| Which must be owned was sensitive and surly, |
| Yet tis in vain such sallies to permit, |
| They cannot quench young feelings fresh and early: |
| I scotched, not killed the Scotchman in my blood, |
| And love the land of mountain and of flood. |
Byron. | 10 | | |
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