8+ William Edmondstoune Aytoun Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best William Edmondstoune Aytoun quotes and sayings.

Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid! — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God! — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun