Miscellany.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 528, 5 August 1881, Page 3

Miscellany.

THE AULD CLACHAN WORTHIES,

"'The short and simplo annals of the poor. 7, —Guay. Anither, anither, and still yet anither, An' Death lays his cauld an' his merciless hand On silvry-hait'cl sago and on leal, loving mither, . Wha ance were the pride and the boast o' the land. Oh! dolcfu's the main heard in anony a dwellin', Sin , winter cam' on wi' his frost and his snaw;" The vacant chair tellin' the theme o' our wailin'— ■■.; ,'. The Aulfl Clachan worthies are wearin' fawa!. ''.... 1 whiles sit me doon, i' the cauld winters glonmin', To think on the hames that langsyne I weel kent, Where licht hearts were leapin' and bricht een were beam in', An , true worth did flourish, where wealth was iie'er kent, ' Where kind, faithfu' none did the parents lives bnghten, And dochters as pure as the new driven snaw. Tho' siccan blythe scenes noo inair rarely we light on— The Auld Clachan worthies are wearin , awa'.

I like aye to muse on the laigh, tlieekit aheelin', Wi' divot-built riggin' ah' raipa roun the lum ; The but and the ben o' the humble Scotch hallan, The hearty Scotch woclome for a' that may come— The bricht e'enin' fire, to the rantle-tree bleezin', That lit up the cottage, clean, cosie, an a , , Whore time's speedy flight, amang scenes eae enticin', Was marked by the queer wudden wag-at-the-wa'. At kirk, when I join in the prayers and praises, I.canna help thinkin'—e'en if it's a ./:, '-'-■ Bin— '•.; ■•' On frail aged' forms, an' familiar, kind faces, That now, if I look for, 'tis only in vain. The stieve-hamilt staff and ,the plain shepherd plaidie Are sichte by wilk rarely oor path noo U cross'd, The' oft hae they grae'd at kirk, fair, mill, nnd smiddy, .As kind sons as e'er Mither Scotland could boast. In days when ac change chases hard on anither, Wβ whiles maun thole changes no just ' for the beet; When bald-headed carle and reverend faither Maun bow to the wisdom by striplings possessed. An' doesna dissemblance '" aft eagerly gather Fruits that should to truth, worth, and honesty fa. We're a' t.ipsalteerie, we're a wrang thegither— The Auld Clachari worthies are wearin' awa , . ■ . They're wearin' awa', an' wi' them, too we're rynin' The beauty an , grace o' our auld mither tongue, That aft round oor young hearts gaed witchingly twinin', In tales, sangs, and ballads, they tauld an' they sung. v : • There'll eune be nocbt left to reminds' o' them, savin' The auld sculptur'd through stanes richt near the kirk wa , , That silently tell, where the rank grass is wavin', The Auld Clachan worthies are wearin' awa 1 . PEEBLESSHIRE. — Advertiser.