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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REV. HABAKKUK MCGRUTHER OF CAPE WRATH, IN 1879, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God save old scotland! Such a cry | |||
GOD save old Scotland! Such a cry Comes raving north from Edinburgh. It shakes the earth, and rends the sky, It thrills and fills true hearts with sorrow. There's no such place, by God's good grace, As smoky hell's dusk-flaming cavern? Ye fools, beware, or ye may share The hottest brew of Satan's tavern . Ye surely know that Scotland's fate Controls the whole wide world's well- being; And well ye know her godly state Depends on faith in sin's hell-feeing. And would ye then, false-hearted men, From Scotland rape her dear damnation? Take from her hell, then take as well From space the law of gravitation. A battle-cry for every session In these wild-whirling, heaving last days: Discard for ever the Confession; Abolish, if you choose, the Fast-days; Let Bible knowledge in school and college No more be taught-we'll say, 'All's well .' 'Twill scarcely grieve us, if you but leave us For Scotland's use, in Heaven's name, Hell." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A NORTHERN SUBURB by JOHN DAVIDSON A RUNNABLE STAG by JOHN DAVIDSON HOLIDAY AT HAMPTON COURT by JOHN DAVIDSON IN ROMNEY MARSH by JOHN DAVIDSON THIRTY BOB A WEEK by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD OF A COWARD by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD OF A NUN by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD OF A WORKMAN by JOHN DAVIDSON |
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