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Decorative stones on the north wall of Parliament contain poems and saying from famous Scots:
This is my country,
The land that begat me.
These windy spaces
Are surely my own.
And those who here toil
In the sweat of their faces
Are flesh of my flesh,
And bone of my bone.
("Scotland", Sir Alexander Gray, lower left)
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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
("Inversnald", Gerard Manley Hopkins, upper right)
This is my country,
The land that begat me.
These windy spaces
Are surely my own.
And those who here toil
In the sweat of their faces
Are flesh of my flesh,
And bone of my bone.
("Scotland", Sir Alexander Gray, lower left)
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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
("Inversnald", Gerard Manley Hopkins, upper right)