Your carolan’s blythe, bricht bird i the blackthorn bou, this braw Voar morn, wi trill eftir spirlan trill, tho you only ken the warld as it liggs the nou, an nocht but a glisk concerns your chatteran bill… —Maurice Lindsay, “On Hearin a Merle Singan” from A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL 2016) 2/2 https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/ #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotland