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Chaunticleer’s Prayer

Ian McFadyen

Whit gart ye gie
peacocks thon
tails fu’ o eyes
Lord?
Lord?
It’s me
gaurs the sun rise!

Ian McFadyen

from Jorum: six poets in Border Scots (Scottish Borders Council Arts Service, 2000)

Reproduced by permission of the author.

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Ian McFadyenb.1950

Ian McFadyen is a former schoolteacher, now living in Peebles. Raised in West Linton, educated at Peebles High School and the University of Edinburgh, he taught in Tweeddale until his retirement.
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