The sound of whaups (curlews) crying – courtesy of the RSPB

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EBjUVhw3NQ

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Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
My heart remembers how!

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”

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Yesterday, I saw a cousin of yours,
a whimbrel,
that, when close to, looks like yourself
seen at a distance…

—Norman MacCaig, “Curlew”
from The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2009)

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #curlews #WorldCurlewDay #birds

The sound of whaups (curlews) crying – courtesy of the RSPB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EBjUVhw3NQ

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #curlew #curlews #WorldCurlewDay

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
My heart remembers how!

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #curlew #curlews #WorldCurlewDay