In this full tide of joy effaced:

Hail! and rejoice!—thy race shall claim

A heritage of deathless fame,

And Scotland shall arise at length

Majestic in triumphant strength,

An eagle of the rock, that won

A way through tempests to the sun.

Nor scorn the visions, wildly grand,

The prophet-spirit of thy land:

By torrent-wave, in desert vast,