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When the rugged moor’s my comrade
And the barren hills my friends,
When I take delight in the winds of night
And ghostly twilight ends,
The ancient folk are waking.
They beat on my heart and brain ;
From a handful of dust comes wanderers’ lust
For traffic with wind and rain.
Their eyes are watching when I watch
The way that the wild deer went,
I hear their cry where the thin reeds sigh
On wastes of the naked bent.
Lost and gone and forgotten,
Old tracks by the bracken sown,
Mystical rites by the cold star lights
On an altar shaped from a stone.
But the moor shall be my comrade
And the hills my friends shall be,
Till life’s last snow falls chill and slow
On hill and moor and tree.
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When the rugged moor’s my comrade
And the barren hills my friends,
When I take delight in the winds of night
And ghostly twilight ends,
The ancient folk are waking.
They beat on my heart and brain ;
From a handful of dust comes wanderers’ lust
For traffic with wind and rain.
Their eyes are watching when I watch
The way that the wild deer went,
I hear their cry where the thin reeds sigh
On wastes of the naked bent.
Lost and gone and forgotten,
Old tracks by the bracken sown,
Mystical rites by the cold star lights
On an altar shaped from a stone.
But the moor shall be my comrade
And the hills my friends shall be,
Till life’s last snow falls chill and slow
On hill and moor and tree.
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Marion Angus > Sun & candlelight > (34) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129189314 |
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| Description | By Marion Angus. |
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| Shelfmark | X .192.e |
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| Description | Marion Angus (1865-1946) was a key figure in the Scottish literary renaissance. A late starter, she did not publish her first collection of poetry, 'The Lilt and other poems' (1922), until she was 56. Heavily influenced by the Scottish ballad tradition and folk song, her work is mainly in Scots. She is one of the most important Scottish poets of the 20th century and her work deserves a wide audience. |
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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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