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Sorrow remembers us when day is done.
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening…—Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800170940
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #IainCrichtonSmith #sorrow #grief #grieving
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He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made…—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WalterScott #IainCrichtonSmith #writers #writing
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He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made…—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WalterScott #IainCrichtonSmith #writers #writing