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In Caledonia, stern and wild, / Whence scholars, statesmen, bards have sprung, / Where ev'ry little barefoot child / Correctly lisps his mother-tongue, / And lingual solecisms betoken / That Scotch is drunk, as well as spoken, / There dwells a man of iron nerve, / A millionaire without a peer, / Possessing that supreme reserve / Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere, / And marks him out to human ken / As one of Nature's noblemen.
Like other self-made persons, he / Is surely much to be excused, / Since they have had no choice, you see, / Of the material to be used; / But when his noiseless fabric grew, / He builded better than he knew.