English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 463. Hame, Hame, Hame |
| | | Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) |
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| HAME, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be— | |
| O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree! | |
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| When the flower is i’ the bud and the leaf is on the tree, | |
| The larks shall sing me hame in my ain countree; | |
| Hame, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be— | 5 |
| O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree! | |
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| The green leaf o’ loyaltie’s beginning for to fa’, | |
| The bonnie White Rose it is withering an’ a’; | |
| But I’ll water ’t wi’ the blude of usurping tyrannie, | |
| An’ green it will graw in my ain countree. | 10 |
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| O, there’s nocht now frae ruin my country can save, | |
| But the keys o’ kind heaven, to open the grave; | |
| That a’ the noble martyrs wha died for loyaltie | |
| May rise again an’ fight for their ain countree. | |
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| The great now are gane, a’ wha ventured to save, | 15 |
| The new grass is springing on the tap o’ their grave; | |
| But the sun through the mirk blinks blythe in my e’e, | |
| ‘I’ll shine on ye yet in your ain countree.’ | |
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| Hame, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be— | |
| O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree! | 20 |
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