Merry Christmas 2022

Merry Christmas, one and all. Today, I leave you with a poem that I first read in The Kist. It’s by Josephine Neill and it’s my favourite Christmas poem. I also feel it works well put to music.

Take care.

A Christmas Poem

by Josephine Neill

A caald winter’s nicht
Starn heich in the lift
A lass wi a bairnie
Ahint a snaa drift.        

Come in through the byre
Step ower the straw
Draw ben tae the fire
Afore the day daw.      

The bairnie will sleep
By the peat’s puttrin flame
Oor waarmin place, lassie,
This nicht is your hame.       

Come morning the snaa
Showed nae fuitprints at aa
Tho the lass wi the bairnie
Had stolen awaa.        

An we mynded anither
A lang while afore
Wi a bairn in her airms
An the beasts roun the door.

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