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Broughty Ferry

William Montgomerie

The lamps across the river
are lilies of light
rooted with fire

The evening star
is a windflower of light

The crescent moon
holds the apple of darkness
in a glass

Three fishermen
are talking by the drawn-up boats

They know the dark river
and the sea beyond

William Montgomerie

from From Time to Time: selected poems (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1985)

Reproduced by permission of the author’s Estate.

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Dundee night River Tay
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William Montgomerie1904 - 1994

William Montgomerie was a scholarly folklorist and bibliographer of the ballads of Scotland, whose own poetic output covered half a century of publication.
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