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| Posted by: HunaWoman 19-Sep-2011, 01:18 PM |
| Nettles O sad for me Glen Aora, Where I have friends no more, For lowly lie the rafters, And the lintels of the door. The friends are all departed, The hearth-stone's black and cold, And sturdy grows the nettle On the place beloved of old. O! black might be that ruin Where my fathers dwelt so long, And nothing hide the shame of it, The ugliness and wrong; The cabar and the corner-stone Might bleach in wind and rains, But for the gentle nettle That took such a courtier's pains. Here's one who has no quarrel With the nettle thick and tall, That hides the cheerless hearthstone And screens the humble wall, That clusters on the footpath Where the children used to play, And guards a household's sepulchre From all who come the way. There's deer upon the mountain, There's sheep along the glen, The forests hum with feather, But where are now the men? Here's but my mother's garden Where soft the footsteps fall, My folk are quite forgotten, But the nettle's over all. by Neil Munro |
| Posted by: dalern63 01-Jul-2018, 10:05 PM |
| Beautiful |