262/365 Scotland

262/365 Scotland

"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!"

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)