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2002 Greeting
A GREETING WI’ DATES MAUMIE AN’ WAIRSH
Oan June 21st - the year’s langest day -
The auldest Burns Club coachéd its way
Tae Auld Reekie. A bit splore we’d hae
Alang the M8.
Then, stravaigin’ like wyse wains at play,
Aff doun…
1996 Greeting
Twa Hunner’ Years Syne
On a dank, dreich day by the Nith,
Ae chiel passed awa’ in Dumfries -
Tho’ plackless then, in wardly worth,
He was bless’d in his Maker’s peace -
And in your mind an’ mine
Richt up to this day,
Twa…
1990 Greeting
In the Aichties — for the Nineties
In the Aichties —
We heard o’ yon Walesa chiel —
Mandela, Sakharov as weel,
An mair, withstood Oppression’s heel,
Aye constant in faith.
Like Rab. they dreamed ae promise leal
Wi’ he’rts…