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Snaw

J. K. Annand

Es ist ein Schnee gefallen Anon. 16th century

It’s snawin cats and dugs,
Winter’s owre early,
Hailstones blatter my lugs
The road is smoorit fairly.

My gavel-end is sindert
My hous has growne auld
My ruif-tree is nou flindert
My room is owre cauld.

Ach lassie, show some pitie,
I’m dowie, and I pyne.
Tak me to your hert
And fleg the winter hyne.


J. K. Annand

from Selected Poems 1925-1990 (The Mercat Press, 1992)

Reproduced by permission of Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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Scots Translations winter
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J. K. Annand1908 - 1993

J. K. Annand's bairn rhymes continue to delight Scots children, but he also wrote poetry for adults, and was an active promoter of the Scots language.
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