“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!Land of my sires! what mortal handCan e’er untie the filial band,That knits me to thy rugged strand!â€Sir Walter Scott  –  Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto VI, st. 2) Richard SchmidAbbotsford House (2012)30…
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