Scottish quote of the day: Scotland, by Sir Alexander Gray

Published on 28/06/2012 15:01

ECONOMIST and poet Professor Sir Alexander Gray studied at Edinburgh University, going on to produce anti-German propaganda during the First World War, before taking up posts as professor of Political economy at Aberdeen and then Edinburgh Universities, and being elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1942.

In addition to his economic writings, he wrote poetry, and the third stanza of his poem Scotland is featured on the Canongate wall of the Scottish Parliament:

This is my country,

The land that begat me.

These windy spaces

Are surely my own.

And those who toil here

In the sweat of their faces

Are flesh of my flesh,

And bone of my bone.