Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918) was a Canadian poet, and lived
in Ontario. You can read about him here.
I'm ashamed to admit that I hadn't heard of him before. But these few verses from his poem The
World-Mother (Scotland) appealed to me (if we ignore the fact
that for each of the Scotsmen who moved away, there were an equal number of
Scotswomen with them who contributed just as much!).
Of course his poetry is of its time and appears very old fashioned and
romanticising to us today. But in this
year of Homecoming Scotland I thought that the last line was quite apt.
The Greenockian
Nice poem. My family would have been one of those that left in ye olde days!
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