“To prove my saul is Scots I maun begin
Wi what’s still deemed Scots and the folk expect,
And spire up syne by visible degrees
To heichts whereo the fules hae never recked“.
Hap yer lugs roon Hugh MacDiarmid readin oot the hail o “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”.
Or in Youtube…
The wirds
An a BBC bio…
Writing Scotland – Hugh MacDiarmid – BBC TwoNorthern Numbers, 3 vols, ed. by (1920-22) Annals of the Five Senses (1923) Sangschaw (1925) Penny Wheep (1926) Contemporary Scottish Studies (1926) A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926) Robert Burns 1759-1796, ed.
via BBC