Careful Words

heath (n.)

O Caledonia! stern and wild,

Meet nurse for a poetic child!

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood;

Land of the mountain and the flood!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. Stanza 2.

  My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Rob Roy. Chap. xxxiv.

A foot more light, a step more true,

Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lady of the Lake. Canto i. Stanza 18.