| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Bannockburn | | By Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | Robert Bruce’s Address to His Army |
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SCOTS, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, | |
| Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, | |
| Welcome to your gory bed, | |
| Or to victorie! | |
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| Now’s the day, and now’s the hour; | 5 |
| See the front o’ battle lour; | |
| See approach proud Edward’s power— | |
| Chains and slaverie! | |
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| Wha will be a traitor knave? | |
| Wha can fill a coward’s grave? | 10 |
| Wha sae base as be a slave? | |
| Let him turn and flee! | |
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| Wha, for Scotland’s king and law, | |
| Freedom’s sword will strongly draw, | |
| Free-man stand, or Free-man fa’ | 15 |
| Let him on wi’ me! | |
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| By Oppression’s woes and pains! | |
| By your sons in servile chains! | |
| We will drain our dearest veins, | |
| But they shall be free! | 20 |
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| Lay the proud usurpers low! | |
| Tyrants fall in every foe! | |
| Liberty’s in every blow!— | |
| Let us do or die! | | | |
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