Scottish Poetry Selection
- A Wish for The Children
A Wish for The Children
Through the summer paradise
May their golden hours
Flit like wildered butterflies
In a maze of flowers!
Pleasure wake them morn by morn;
Roses deck them from the thorn:
Poppies crown them from the corn;
Night with her enchanted horn
Woo them like a Hamelin band
Over vale and steep
To a fairer wonderland
Through the gates of sleep;
Till the pools along the shore
Can enrich them nothing more;
Till the meadows jeweled floor
Weary with familiar love;
Till the home-thought comes to croon
Sweetly ‘oer the seas
As to languid afternoon
Comes the sweet sea-breeze!Meaning of unusual words:
Hamelin - refers to the Pied Piper of Hamlin
Where else would you like to go in Scotland?