My Native Land Poem by Sir Walter Scott
My Native Land
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.
Brilliant, what a superb poem. I have been away from Scotland for over 40 years and will never forget where I came from.
this is a poem my class is studying right now, but I have already learned it.
Learnt this poem as a school girl not knowing that years later it would ring so true..the pull of my native land gets stronger with the years.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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