SCOTS WHA HAE WI’ WALLACE BLED
Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victory!
Now’s the day, and now’s the hour;
See the front o’ battle lour,
See approach proud Edward’s power –
Chains and slavery!
Wha will be a traitor-knave?
Wha can fill a coward’s grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!
Wha for Scotland’s king and law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand or freeman fa’,
Let him follow me!
By oppression’s woes and pains,
By your sons in servile chains,
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in ev’ry foe!
Liberty’s in ev’ry blow!
Let us do or die!
— Robert Burns
Robert Burns (1759 –1796) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide.
SOUND HEART BYTES
Palin vs Putin–
some shootin’!
She’ll gut that Russian bear
with small town flair!
And Amadinejad–
that tongue-twister–
watch her take him on,
Sarah, our sister.
Hope is a thing
with feathers, the poet said.
Sarah’ll pluck ’em one by one
until we’re dead.
— Dodo Bumbum
(Bumbum is an alter ego of Henry Braun, the Bard of Weld)
