deer quotes

   My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe; My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

- Robert Burns
  'My heart's in the Highlands', chorus.

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day.

- Brewster   d.1911 Higley
c.1873  'Home on the Range'.

Tha t|'m, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig. Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig.

- Sorley Gaelic name Somhairle MacGill-Eain MacLean
  'Hallaig', epitaph.

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runs time's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

- Edwin Muir
  'The Road'.

   Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lady of the Lake, canto 4, stanza12,'Alice Brand'.

He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Evan Dhu Maccombich to EdwardWaverley.Waverley, ch.18.