{"id":447,"date":"2017-07-29T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T22:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2017-08-02T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:37:52","slug":"bletherin-fou-anent-caledonia-ben-the-howff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/29\/bletherin-fou-anent-caledonia-ben-the-howff\/","title":{"rendered":"BLETHERIN FOU ANENT CALEDONIA (Ben the Howff)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jaz Dunnichen<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Contermacious yir Pictish quean an loon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charrit an airms Tam, no aft laid doun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Breuked a braw stour an aft pentit thairsel<\/span><\/p>\n

tae set tae Romans, flichtermice fae Hell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sic Hadrian biggit thon faur-kent dyke<\/span><\/p>\n

seein tae as the wather wiz dreich like.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gin Antoninus biggit anither ane-<\/span><\/p>\n

gaed fae Forth tae Clyde wi divot an stane.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tak yer een aff thon wee ginger limmer –<\/span><\/p>\n

she\u2019s fell peelie-wallie like wir simmer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dout that she\u2019ll cast her duddies tae the wark,<\/span><\/p>\n

maistly sin yir wearin thon mingin sark.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Weel it wis fair in the newins the day –<\/span><\/p>\n

micht hae been anither waw Mearns way,<\/span><\/p>\n

that archaeologists jalouse thay\u2019ve fund<\/span><\/p>\n

whiles\u00a0 howkin some reid clart oota the grund.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mind ye wad cuddies ere ye wir waddit –<\/span><\/p>\n

craitur cried Mons Graupius ye\u00a0 haddit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stairtit swith an gat stickit in the glaur,<\/span><\/p>\n

cried efter thon fecht by dinna ken whaur.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wee cutty sark thar\u2019s juist gon ben the howff.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019ll lear ye tae be sae awfu dowf,<\/span><\/p>\n

doverin as the warld passes by<\/span><\/p>\n

regairdless o\u2019 ongauns like hird o\u2019 kye.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nou if wi depairt dae wi hae three dykes?<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019ll fair stir up ane whappin wasps\u2019 byke.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whauraboots is wir leal mairch the nou?<\/span><\/p>\n

Here man, ye can vote even gin ye\u2019re fou!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hadrian\u2019s,\u00a0 Antonine\u2019s an ae ither.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gie awa Hadrian\u2019s – twa bide hither.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sortit wi\u2019oot a muckle stramash Tam.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wauken up man an feenish that wee dram.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wunner if the Picts kent thir wis ile?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thay focht the Roman billies a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

Used tae gie ane anither a guid fleg<\/span><\/p>\n

but a\u2019m no sae shuir wha wis the mair gleg?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nou wi micht git lowsed – tak tent Tam tak tent!<\/span><\/p>\n

Than again some fowk think wi micht git rent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mind guid howffs\u2019ll be here mony morras,<\/span><\/p>\n

sae we coud come back droun ony sorras.<\/span><\/p>\n

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by Jaz Dunnichen Contermacious yir Pictish quean an loon. Charrit an airms Tam, no aft laid doun. Breuked a braw stour an aft pentit thairsel tae set tae Romans, flichtermice fae Hell.   Sic Hadrian biggit thon faur-kent dyke seein tae as the wather wiz dreich like. Gin Antoninus biggit anither ane- gaed fae Forth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[265,263,259,268,258,269,264,270,262,266,256,118,261,257,260,267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}