Purple Saxifrage
Aneath a hap o snaw it derns
Deep in a dwam for maist the year
To burst throu in a bleeze o starns
Syne skail its flourish on the stour.
Gif I had ae short simmer o sang
Wi hauf the beauty o thon flouer
In the snaw o eild I'd hap my tongue
And haud my wheest for evermair.
J.K. Annand,
Selected by The Scottish Poetry Library, reproduced with the permission of Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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