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Douglas Young Quotes

1913–1973 Scotland

Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young (5 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish poet, scholar, translator and politician. He was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1942 to 1945 and was a classics professor at McMaster University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Caller rain frae abune
reeshles amang the epple-trees:
the leaves are soughan wi the breeze,
and sleep faas drappan doun.

Minnie, I canna caa my wheel,
or spin the oo or twine the tweel.
It's luve a laddie whammles me.
Ech, the wanchancie glamarie.

Deid sall ye ligg, and ne'er a memorie
sall onie hain, or ae regret for ye,
sin that ye haena roses o Pierie.
In Hades' howff a gangrel ghaist ye'll flee,
amang derk ghaists stravaigan sichtlesslie.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas Young (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.