Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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A poem done to the old song "Scots Wha Hae Wie Wallace Bled" a year before Henry's death and written in his daughter Jane's Poetry Manuscript Book. Narrated by Byron Nilsson.

Scots Wha Hae Wie Wallace Bled. --Old Song.


In arts and arms Escotia stands
Foremost of European lands
Dear soil! from whence my fathers came
I bless and hail thy worth and fame.

Thy sturdy sons in martial pride
With their good broad-swords by their side
In tartain plaid and bonnets blue
A band of Heroes in review.

Scotland excels in peaceful arts:
-Her pulpits warm the coldest hearts;
In poetry her Thompson shines
And thrills us with his glowing lines.

Ramsay and Burns each in their day
Attune their lyres in sweetest lay,
While Scot ascends Parnassus heights
And all the listening world delights.

-But - useless grown my broken shell
I bid the land of cares farewell
Oppressed with the lapse of time
I faintly dream of Auld Lang-Syne.