BE KIND TO AULD GRANNIE.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 214, 9 February 1866, Page 3

BE KIND TO AULD GRANNIE.

Be kind to auld grannie, for noo she is frail : A time-shatter'd tree bending low in the gale ; "When ye were wee bairnies, tott, totting about, She watched ye wheniw, and she watched ye when [out ; And aye when ye chanced, in your daffin' and fun, To dunt your wee heads on the cold staney grun', She lifted ye up, and she kissed ye fu' fain, Till a' your bit cares were forgotten again ; — Then be kind to auld grannie, for noo she is frail, As a time-shatter'd tree bending low in the gale. When first in your hearts rose that feeling divine, That's worked by the tales and the sangs o' langsyne, Wi' auld-warld cracks she would pleasure inspire, In the lang winter nights as she sat by the fire; Or melt your young hearts wi' some sweet Scottish Pay, Like " The Flowers o'the Forest," or " Auld Robin [Gray;" Though eerie the win' blew around our bit cot, Grim winter and a' its rude blasts were forgot, — , Then be kind to grannie for noo she is frail, As a time-shatter'd tree bending low in the gale. And mind, tho' the blythe day o' youth noo is [yours; Time will wither its joys as wild winter the flowers, And your step that's noo licht as the bound o' the [roe, Wi' cheerless auld age may be feeble and slow ; An' the frien's o' your youth to the grave may be [gane, And ye on its brink may be tottering alane ; O ! think how consoling some frien' would be then When the gloaming o' Hie comes like mist o'er [the glen ; Then be kind to auld grannie, for noo she is frail, ; As a time-shatter'd tree bending low in the gale. Archibald M'Kay.