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William Edmondstoune Aytoun Quotes

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1921). “Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun”

Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.

Theodore Martin (sir.), William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1866). “The book of ballads [by sir T. Martin and W.E. Aytoun] ed. by Bon Gaultier”, p.128