Edina! Scotia's darling seat!

It includes you in its festivities and lets you dream while it reads,
There is magic in its meadows and its shallow winding streams,
The cobbles, they spew out stories of joy and flowing mead,
This must be more than love for you, land that I tread,
Oh Edina! Scotia's darling seat!
- Swas




"Edina! Scotia's darling seat!" - Robert Burns

 "Who indeed that has once seen Edinburgh, but must see it again in dreams waking or sleeping?” - Charlotte Bronte

"Edinburgh is a mad god's dream." - Hugh MacDiarmid

“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.” - Alexander McCall Smith

”Such was my first view of Edinburgh. I descended again into her streets in a sort of stupor of admiration.” JG Lockhart

”Edinburgh lays itself open like a secret solved;
there’s no leaving Edinburgh,
No shifting it around,
it stays with you, always.”
- Alan Bold