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Dryburgh Abbey

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Sir Walter Scott lies here with members of his family and amongst the people of the Borders which he loved so well.

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'Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned.
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering in a foreign strand!"

Scott from The Lay Of The Last Minstrel

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