Reading The Flowers of the Forest | Alexandria
Read The Flowers of the Forest by Alison Rutherford Cockburn. Lamenting Scotland's fallen soldiers, this haunting ballad transcends mere elegy to illuminate how shared grief can unite a divided nation. Though written after a military defeat, Cockburn's verses reveal the paradox that loss itself can forge powerful bonds of cultural identity - a truth as relevant for healing today's social fractures as it was in 1756.