Versos English Harry Graham Scotland

English poem

Scotland

by (1874–1936)

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In Scotland all the people wear Red hair and freckles, and one sees The men in women's dresses there, With stout, decollete, low-necked knees. ('Eblins ye dinna ken, I doot, We're unco guid, so hoot, mon, hoot!')

They love 'ta whuskey' and 'ta Kirk'; I don't know which they like the most. They aren't the least afraid of work; No sense of humour can they boast; And you require an axe to coax The canny Scot to see your jokes.

They play an instrument they call The bagpipes; and the sound of these Is reminiscent of the squall Of infant pigs attacked by bees; Music that might drive cats away Or make reluctant chickens lay.