Harold Boulton

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, CVO, CBE, JP (7 August 1859 – 1 June 1935) was an English songwriter, and philanthropist, most famously author of the lyrics to the "Skye Boat Song".

Quotes

• Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
     ‘Onward,’ the sailors cry.
  Carry the lad that’s born to be king
     Over the sea to Skye.
  • "Skye Boat Song", st. 1, in Songs of the North (1884)

• Burned are our homes, exile and death,
     Scattered the loyal men.
  Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath,
     Charlie will come again.
  • "Skye Boat Song", st. 5, in Songs of the North (1884)

• When Adam and Eve were dispossessed
     Of the garden hard by Heaven,
  They planted another one down in the west,
     ’Twas Devon, glorious Devon!
  • "Glorious Devon", st. 2, in Lyrics, and Other Poems (1902)