Document 1361
Craw
Author(s): David Purves
Copyright holder(s): Prof Geoffrey F Dutton: Published in Camp One, Macdonald, 1978, David Purves
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ye wait on the bare bou for the wabbit mappie
the unborn lamb.
ye hae the gait
o fenyiein no ti see
the nest whaur the best eggs liggs.
or thay ir set ti flie
an gin Ah luik up at ye skimmerin abuin
seeminlie
happit in maimorie,
ye jouk bedein
at yeir ain skyme.
ye hae gaen back til the mukkil elm
ye made yeir hame.
its tap is diein, ye micht suin hae ti flit.
ye sit an watch the dwynin loanins
the broun riggs the maws wul caw ye frae,
whan the sie rairs.
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