To Mountain Tarn 



The greater Scotland is now elsewhere New 

 Zealand, Australia, Canada, even the United 

 States. Men who emigrate go over to the 

 majority. No one is so much a patriot as he 

 who has left his native land behind, nor so longs 

 to find things as they were. If the years of 

 captivity linger, so much more desirable does the 

 vision become, till the heart aches for desire. 

 Less intense, but not less pathetic, and whole- 

 hearted his allegiance than that which found utter- 

 ance long ago : " If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, 

 may my right hand forget her cunning." 



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