graces & toasts Archives | Scottish Poetry Library

Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns

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Here’s freedom to them that wad read,
Here’s freedom to them that wad write!
There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth would indite.

The Original (Selkirk) and the Alternative Grace - by Richard Medrington

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with apologies
/
/ Some hae meat and canna eat
/ And some wad eat that want it:
/ But we hae meat and we can eat,
/ And…

Address to a Hot Haggis - by Elspeth Murray

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The haggis has taken the world by storm
/ With evocative Scottishness, a cheeky chubby form
/ And an epic, eight-verse intro, which is…