Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 431. Song—Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn |
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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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