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THE LIGHT NIGHTS
Ye’ve left the sun an’ the can’lelicht an’ the
starlicht,
The wuds baith green an’ sere,
And yet I hear ye singin’ doon the braes
I’ the licht nichts o’ the year.
Ye were sae glad ; ye were aye sae like the lave¬
rock
Wha’s he’rt is i’ the lift;
Nae mair for you the young green leaves will dance
Nor yet the auld anes drift.
What thocht had you o’ the ill-faur’d dairk o’-
winter
But the ingle-neuks o’ hame ?
Love lit yer way an’ played aboot yer feet,
Year in, year oot, the same.
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Ye’ve left the sun an’ the can’lelicht an’ the
starlicht,
The wuds baith green an’ sere,
And yet I hear ye singin’ doon the braes
I’ the licht nichts o’ the year.
Ye were sae glad ; ye were aye sae like the lave¬
rock
Wha’s he’rt is i’ the lift;
Nae mair for you the young green leaves will dance
Nor yet the auld anes drift.
What thocht had you o’ the ill-faur’d dairk o’-
winter
But the ingle-neuks o’ hame ?
Love lit yer way an’ played aboot yer feet,
Year in, year oot, the same.
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Northern lights: and other poems > (24) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129094115 |
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| Shelfmark | NG.1168.f.12 |
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| Description | Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was born into an aristocratic family who had lived at the House of Dun near Montrose since the 15th century. Her classic novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising, 'Flemington” (1911), was highly regarded by John Buchan and is still in print. Jacob had a deep appreciation of the Angus dialect and countryside, and this is evident in her celebrated Scots language poetry in volumes such as 'Song of Angus' (1915). |
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| Description | A selection of classic out-of-copyright Scottish poetry, prose and children’s stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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