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“They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.
#Grief Quotes
#Woe Quotes
#Fame Quotes
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“Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171
#Heart Quotes
#Plaid Quotes
#Beats Quotes
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“Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoiled to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had the mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
#Daughter Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Son Quotes
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“Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God!”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.105
#Fashion Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Broken Quotes
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“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.”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : 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
#Men Quotes
#Land Quotes
#Feuds Quotes
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“He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.
#Hero Quotes
#Rooms Quotes
#Prison Quotes
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“Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171
#Scotland Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Scottish Quotes
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“The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1921). “Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun”
#Home Quotes
#Tree Quotes
#Heaven Quotes
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“Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.”
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Source : "Firmilian: A "spasmodic" Tragedy".
#Daughter Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Son Quotes
