I wrote about this poem as part of my MLitt... it has a fascinating history and a real sense of promise for the future.
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Association for Scottish Literature
Roch the wind in the clear day’s dawin
Blaws the cloods heelster-gowdie ow’r the bay,
But there’s mair nor a roch wind blawin
Through the great glen o’ the warld the day…
—Hamish Henderson, “The Freedom Come-All-Ye”
published in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongate.co.uk
Blaws the cloods heelster-gowdie ow’r the bay,
But there’s mair nor a roch wind blawin
Through the great glen o’ the warld the day…
—Hamish Henderson, “The Freedom Come-All-Ye”
published in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongate.co.uk
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