Hi Sally,
I'm so out of touch with happenings in Scotland that this has come as a
boon. So some daft chinless tory is trying some historical genocide on
buildings. I don't care for the Wallace monument in Stirling, I spent four
years looking at it from the University campus, but deeply regret this
event. Thanks for the poem. It is just fine.
bw
James
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New: In the Country
>Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:08:37 +0000
>
>Well, here's a new poem. I said this would happen.
>
>In the Country
>
>The castle has gone
>from the sides of the river,
>it cannot be replaced.
>Caressed by wind and rain
>and buffeted by storm
>the castle has gone
>from the sides of the river.
>
>The Gaelic has gone
>from the sides of the river,
>unvisited by people
>the Gaelic has gone,
>and cannot be replaced.
>The church, the aristocracy,
>always guard the people.
>
>Gone are the Gaelic and castle
>and gone is the railway line.
>And in their place
>are memories like mine.
>
>Sally Evans
>
>(note: we say "the Gaelic" for the old language - and a tory has just
>knocked down the caste in which William Wallace was born. Scottish Heritage
>are furious because you can't just knock castles down without permission.
>Also the church was largely ressponsible for the decline in Gaelic,
>historically. So were the schools, later. These things would be known by
>readers in Scotland for whom this poem is really meant. But you're welcome
>to see if you like it)
bw
James
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