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Quotation from The Cotter’s Saturday Night by Robert Burns

“From scenes like these, old Scotia’s grandeur springs, That makes her lov’d at home, rever’d abroad”

Robert Burns (spoken by The narrator)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 19 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement))

The patriotic thesis of the poem: a nation is great because of its godly homes.

Citation: "From scenes like these, old Scotia’s grandeur springs, That makes her lov’d at home, rever’d abroad" — Robert Burns, The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 19 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement)). (id the-cotters-saturday-night-q4)

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