Scotland Without Burns
By M.H.
c. 1951
Scotland without Burns ! Think o’id
An’ measure, if ye can
All id would mean, had we no’ kent
‘E greatness o’e’ man!
Had he no’ won a princely plaice
Among ‘e poet throng
An’ if no voice hed ever raised
‘E glory o’ his song.
No ‘Tam O’Shanter’ ‘Halloo-we’en’
‘Twa Dowgs’ or ‘Scots Wha Hae’
Till set afire wur Scottish pride
Upon his natal day!
No ‘Afton Water’ ‘A’ the Airts’
Or ‘Lass o Ballochmyle’
Not one impassioned utterance
O’ all he did compile!
An’ hed he never felt ‘e joy
An sorrow o’ e’ earth
Nor noted in ‘e humblest guise
True Dignity an worth!
Fit then ? Ah, then wur noblest claim
An’ grandest heritage,
Wid not exist – wur brightest scroll
Be an unwritten page!
Jewel o’ thocht an’ gems o’ speech
By genius inspired
‘E vision o’ a fairer world
So long by man desired.
Not wurs! We dare no’ dream o’ it!
For more than ever noo
He lives in every Scottish he’rt
‘E poet o’ the ploo.
Safe treasured in his neime an’ fame
By all o’ human kind
All Men love Burns, and in his song
‘E Soul o’ Freedom Find.
M.H
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