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Solway Tide

Dorothy Margaret Paulin

An unco sough i’ the gloamin’
An’ a flaff o’ risin’ win’,
A glisk o’ stoundin’ waters
By the weirdly licht o’ the mune,
An’ the fell dark tide o’ Solway
Comes breengin’, whummlin’ in.

Whaur glistenin’ sands lay streikit
Ablow the sunset sky
Noo a wan wide sea is reestin’
An’ the yammerin’ sea-birds cry,
An’ a wheengin’ win’ rings eerily
I’ the salmon nets oot-by.


Dorothy Margaret Paulin

from Country Gold and other poems (The Moray Press, 1936)

Reproduced by permission of the author’s Estate.

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Dorothy Margaret Paulin1904 - 1982

Dorothy Margaret Paulin is best known for poems which illustrate the beauty of her native Dumfriesshire.
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