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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 e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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 e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Walter Scott
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- Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1771 to 1832; Wikidata Q79025, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79025 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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