“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!”

—  Walter Scott , The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto VI, stanza 2.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

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