Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.

Introductory

My Heart ’s in the Highlands

By Robert Burns (1759–1796)

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.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The birthplace of valor, the country of worth;

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands forever I love.

Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow;

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;

Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods;

Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

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.