Caledonia
Ben J W Anthony
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There was once a day, but old Time was then young That brave Caledonia, the chief of her line From some of your northern deities sprung Who knows not that brave Caledonia's divine From Tweed to the Orcades was her domain To hunt, or to pasture, or do what she would Her heavenly relations there fixed her reign And pledged her their godheads to warrant it good A lambkin in peace, but a lion in war The pride of her kindred, the heroine grew Her grandsire, old Odin, triumphantly swore Whoe'er shall provoke thee, the encounter shall rue With tillage or pasture at times she would sport To feed her fair flocks by her green rustling corn But chiefly the woods were her favourite resort Her darling amusement, the hounds and the horn Long quiet she reigned; till thitherward steers A flight of bold eagles from Adria's strand Repeated, successive, for many long years They darkened the air, and they plundered the land Their pounces were murder, and horror their cry They'd conquered and ruined a world beside She took to her hills, and her arrows let fly The daring invaders they fled or they died The Cameleon savage disturbed her repose With tumult, disquiet, rebellion, and strife Provoked beyond bearing, at last she arose And robbed him at once of his hopes and his life The Anglian lion, the terror of France Oft prowling, ensanguined the Tweed's silver flood But, taught by the bright Caledonian lance He learned to fear in his own native wood The fell Harpy-raven took wing from the north The scourge of the seas, and the dread of the shore The wild Scandinavian boar issued forth To wanton in carnage and wallow in gore O'er countries and kingdoms their fury prevailed No arts could appease them, no arms could repel But brave Caledonia in vain they assailed As Largs well can witness, and Loncartie tell Thus bold, independent, unconquered, and free Her bright course of glory for ever shall run For brave Caledonia immortal must be I'll prove it from Euclid as clear as the sun Rectangle-triangle, the figure we'll choose The upright is Chance, and old Time is the base But brave Caledonia's the hypothenuse Then, ergo, she'll match them, and match them always
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