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No effeminate customs our sinews unbrace}
No luxurious tables enervate our race}
Our loud-sounding- pipe breathes <hc true martial strain,
So do we the old Scotish valour retain .
Such our lovc-,<Src.
We're tall as the oak on the mount of the vale,
And swift as the roe which the hound doth assail;
As the full moon in. autumn our shields do appear}
Minerva would dread to encounter our spear.
Such otrr love,«SL-c.
As a storm in the ocean when Boreas blows,
So are we enraged when we rush on our foes ;
We sons of the mountains, tremendous as rocks,
Dash the force of our foes with our thundering- strokes .
Such our love, etc-.
Quebec and Cape Breton, the pride of old France,
In their troops fondly boasted till we did advance;
But when nur claymores they saw tis produce,
Their conraffe did fail, and they sued for a truce-.
Such our lovc,«£rr« .
In our land may the fury of faction long- cease;
May our councils be wise, and our commerce increase,
And in Scotia's cold climate may each of. 'lis find,
That our friends still prove true and our beauties prove kind .
Then well defend our liberty, our country,and our laws,
Ami teach our late posterity to fig-lit in Freedom's cause,
That they, like our Ancestors hold , for honour and applause,
May defy the French, with all their art.s to alter our law s .