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THE THISTLE.
Tune—"Sprig of shillelah."
Let them boast of the country that gave Patrick his fame,
Of the land of the ocean, and Anglian name,
With their red blushing roses, and shamrock sae green;
Far dearer to me are the hills of the North,
The land of blue mountains, the birth place of worth,
Those mountains where freedom has fix'd her abode,
Those wide-spreading glens, where no slave ever trode,
Where blooms the red heather and thistle sae green.
Though rich be the soil where blossoms the rose
And bleak the high mountains, and covered with snows,
Where blooms the red heather and thistle sae green;
Yet for friendship sincere, and for loyalty true
And for courage so bold, which no foe could subdue,
