< Bruce's Address (chapbook)
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Bruce's Address.
Scots! wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots! wham Bruce has aften led;
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to glorious victory.
Now's the day, an' now's the hour,
See the front of battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's pow'r;
Edward, chains, an' slavery.
Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Traitor, coward, turn an' flee.
Wha for Scotland's king an' law,
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman fa',
Caledonian, on wi' me.
By oppression's woes and pains;
By your sons in servile chains;
We will drain our dearest veins.
But they shall be, shall be free.
Lay the proud usurpers low,
Tyrants fall in ev'ry foe;
Liberty's in every blow,
Forward—let us do or die.
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