From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."
Robert Burns
Love
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."
Robert Burns
The Cotter's Saturday Night.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.