If A Faultless Poem Could Be Produced,

O Caledonia! Stern And Wild, Meet Nurse For A Poetic Child! Land Of Brown Heath And Shaggy Wood; Land Of The Mountain And The Flood!

Dear To Me Is My Bonnie White Steed; Oft Has He Helped Me At Pinch Of Need.

Real Valor Consists Not In Being Insensible To Danger; But In Being Prompt To Confront And Disarm It.

Ridicule, The Weapon Of All Others Most Feared By Enthusiasts Of Every Description, And Which From Its Predominance Over Such Minds, Often Checks What Is Absurd, And Fully As Often Smothers That Which Is Noble.

Just At The Age 'twixt Boy And Youth, When Thought Is Speech, And Speech Is Truth.