Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Your carolan’s blythe, bricht bird i the blackthorn bou,<br>this braw Voar morn, wi trill eftir spirlan trill,<br>tho you only ken the warld as it liggs the nou,<br>an nocht but a glisk concerns your chatteran bill…</p><p>—Maurice Lindsay, “On Hearin a Merle Singan (Arbroath Day, April 6th, 1946)”<br>published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/April" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>April</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/birdsong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birdsong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scots</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotslanguage</span></a></p>