1981–1990 | |
Poem:
Alasdair Gray © 2005 | |
The burgh broken and turned to brands and ashes (The tyke that the trammels of treason there wrought Was tried for his treachery, the truest on earth) It was Aeneas the Able and his high kind Who since depressed provinces and patrons became Wellnigh of all the wealth in the West Isles; For rich Romulus to Rome riches he swipes, With great bobbaunce that burgh he builds upon first And names with his own name as now it hath; Ticius in Tuscany township founds, Langbeard in Lombardy lifts up homes And far over the French flood Felix Brutus, On many banks full broad Britain he builds with his winnings Where war and wreck and wonder By times have waxed therein, And off both bliss and blunder Have had their innings. |
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