Category: Poetry
This gallimaufry is dedicated to my friend, Francis George Scott, the composer, who suggested it, and to whom, during the course of writing it, I have been further greatly indebted for co-operative suggestions and for some of the most penetrating and comprehensive of modern Eu...
This gallimaufry is dedicated to my friend, Francis George Scott, the composer, who suggested it, and to whom, during the course of writing it, I have been further greatly indeb...
2. Part 2Swippert and swith wi’ virr In the howes o’ man’s hert Forever its muckle roots stir Like a Leviathan astert, Till’ts coils like a thistle’s leafs Sweep space wi’ levin sheafs.
3. Part 3I’ve watched it lang and hard until I ha’e A certain symp’thy wi’ its orra ways And pride in its success, as weel I may, In growin’ exactly as its instinct says, Save in sae fer...
4. Part 4What earthquake chitters oot In the Thistle’s oorie shape, What gleids o’ central fire In its reid heids escape, And whatna coonter forces In growth and ingrowth graip In an ete...
5. Part 5Ootside me lies—and mair than that, For I stand still for forces which Were subjugated to mak’ way For England’s poo’er, and to enrich The kinds o’ English, and o’ Scots, The le...