“If there's a sword-like sang
That can cut Scotland clear
O a' the warld beside
Rax me the hilt o't here.

For there's nae jewal till
Frae the rest o earth it's free,
Wi the starry separateness
I'd fain to Scotland gie.”

— Hugh MacDiarmid

To Circumjack Cencrastus

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Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve 1892–1978

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