As good Saint Andrew bears.

“‘Why go ye forth, Lord James,’ he said,

‘With spear and belted brand?

Why do you take its dearest pledge

From this our Scottish land?

“‘The sultry breeze of Galilee

Creeps through its groves of palm,

The olives on the Holy Mount

Stand glittering in the calm.

“‘But ’tis not there that Scotland’s Heart