Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
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this is a poem my class is studying right now, but I have already learned it.
Learnt this poem as a school girl not knowing that years later it would ring so true..the pull of my native land gets stronger with the years.
Brilliant, what a superb poem. I have been away from Scotland for over 40 years and will never forget where I came from.
'Beneath the veneer of armor of every Warrior, Beats the Heart of a true Romantic.' HRL
Burn'd, Turn'd Words like these are pronounced Burned, Turned