Noo Maunsie’s wis as guid a tongue
As ever psalm o’ Dauvid sung.
It fittit weel a godly mooth,
And said few wirds ’at wirna truth,
An’ never swöre by Guid or Deil
Excep’ whan kyunnens ate his kail…

—from “Auld Maunsie’s Crü” by B.R. Anderson (1861–1888), in Broken Lights: Poems & Reminiscences of the Late Basil Ramsay Anderson (1888) – republished in 2021 by Northus Shetland Classics

https://www.michaelwalmer.com/northus-shetland-classics/p/broken-lights-poems-and-reminiscences-of-basil-ramsay-anderson-introduced-by-robert-alan-jamieson

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Kinnen oan the green,
Baudron sleekit in the mist;
Sudden start awa.

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Love is all you need: Remembering The Kingis Quair

Alan Riach discusses The Kingis Quair – a poem attributed to King James I of Scots (1394–1437), & described by C.S. Lewis as “the first modern book of love”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17372009.love-is-all-you-need-remembering-the-kings-quair/

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Auld summer sunlicht
Screivit oan sae monie leaves;
Noo trees drap their quair.

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[CAIRN]
Pour le mot "cairn" du #lindentober je suis retournée sur les routes d'Ecosse...

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Yince ah hed a client wanting tae sue a builder. The new flair movit like waves oan the sea. When the boards were liftit, turnt oot there wis onlie wan dwang tae haud the haill lot!

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