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Away wi' Canada's muddy creeks
And Canada's fields of pine
Your land of wheat is a goodly land,
But oh, it is not mine
The heathy hill, the grassy dale.
The daisy spangled lea,
the purling burn and craggy linn, auld
Scotland's glens give me.
Oh, I would like to hear again
The lark on Tinny's hill
And see the wee bit gowany
That blooms beside the rill.
Like banished Swiss who views afar
His Alps with longing e'e.
I gaze upon the morning star
That shines on my country.
No more I'll win by Eskdale glen
Or Pentland's craggy comb.
The days can ne'er come back again
Of thirty years that's gone,
But fancy oft at midnight hour
Will steal across the sea.
And yestereve, in a pleasant dream,
I saw the old country.
Each well-known scene that met my view
Brought childhood's joys to mind.
The blackbird sang on Tushey Linn
The song he sang, 'lang syne.'
But like a dream time flies away,
Again, the morning came.
And I awoke in Canada,
Three thousand miles frae hame.
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