This poem is taken from PN Review 7, Volume 5 Number 3, April - June 1979.
The Maple and the Pine
For maple and for pine
I socht, thae sevin year:
maple I wad presume
raither nor sycamore.
Thof I wes wantan skeel
I wadnae hain on care,
my harns aa my pride:
for thon I had nae fear.
Maple for back and ribs,
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