...Tennyson and others; eg: O Scotia 1 my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent I Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content I And O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ; Then, howe'er...

...changed but slightly, describe your country's confidence in you: "O Scotia, my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, Long may...blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! "And, oh, may Heav'n their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er crowns...

...Cerrig Court Llandegeman CRICKHOWELL SCOTLAND CULROSS, SCOTLAND oi fh, Scotia! My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may...Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! ROBERT BURNS SCOTLAND ABERFOYLE 239,240 BLAIR ATHOLL 241,242 BRAEMAR 243 COLDSTREAM 244 CULROSS 245,...

...nation. At the end of the poem, Burns addresses the nation itself: o SCOTIA! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may...Be blest with health and peace and sweet content! (II 172-75) Although he employs the "sons of rustic toil" as the objects of his national discourse,...

...spareness of his cotters' diet a symbol of Scottish self-reliance: O SCOTIA! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may...prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous Populace may rise the whole, And stand a wall of fire,...