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"O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!

For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent!

Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil

Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

And, oh! may Heaven their simple lives prevent

From luxury’s contagion, weak and vile!

Then, howe’er crowns and coronets be rent,

A virtuous populace may rise the while,

And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved isle."

                        ~ Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night