The Tattie-Bogle by William Soutar | Scottish Poetry Library

The tattie-bogle wags his airms:
Caw! Caw! Caw!
He hasna onie banes or thairms:
Caw! Caw! Caw!

We corbies wha hae taken tent,
And wamphl’d round, and glower’d asklent,
Noo gang hame lauchin owre the bent:
Caw! Caw! Caw!

from Seeds in the Wind: poems in Scots for children, rev. and enlgd. edition (London: Andrew Dakers, 1943)