Paddy Scott Hogg Poems

My nation’s spirit is my Queen
She rules majestic, evergreen
Caledonia’s voice for whom I sing
Immortal muse, my verses bring!
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Rise! Caledonia, land where eagles fly
High where the snowy mountains touch the sky
Gliding o’er forest spreading green, so free
Down, where the glen and river meet the sea.
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Gather aroon the ingle nuek
For ae eerie tale I'll tell -
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Keep your sunny-side up and a painted smile
Skip down the road dressed in style
You’ve gotta keep face and hide the blues
When it falls apart and you’re so confused
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The fires of Spring brought you my child
My heart was yours when you first smiled
To see you and hold you in my arms
I was spellbound within your charms:
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Images of you fill every sense
Overwhelming passions pulse
I feel your presence
Your touch; our bodies, entwined
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Wee, slender, slippery get
That arrow, pointer, cursor met!
Across the screen I’ll run ye yet
Tae foul command
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The wind blew wild and furious
Whistling hell-notes thru the wires
A wall of rain, sheet after sheet, surged
Battering every roof and window, bouncing off paths and roads;
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‘In the cause of Right engaged
Wrongs injurious to redress
Honour’s war we strongly waged
But the Heaven’s GAVE Success! ’
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I walk ab'low a white, white moon
An' gaze mid darkness gather’d roon:
Yon twinklin stars surround th' west -
An dowie limbs lay doon tae rest.
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