... flaming temper Now don't you rush, lay doon that brush They are only wains Just -running loose thro the hoose They're only playing trains. Wee Bob will shunt, gie Dave a dunt Jean they have for freight So just sit a while, learn to smile You only have to wait Don't be brash, life's just a flash ...

Willie McCrindle ~ By Bob Auld Willie McCrindle is leaving For Australia's far off shore We're all going to miss him Of that I'm very ...

Spring Quietly I wander thro' life's vale While soft winds warm the earth Bird song echoes o'er hill and dale Music welcome every flower's birth Serene and majestic stand the trees Sighing gently caressed by the breeze Each bud b'deck't waving bough Every grassy strewn rocky knowe Embracing the sun,...

The Seugh of the Sea I have listened with glee to the songs of the sea In many of its variable moods I have walked on the shore, with its long sandy floor In the night's long solitudes I have heard the surf roar like a mighty encore Music to people like me I am many ways blessed but I also have miss...

... modest fame His name is Sanny Broon true to say that he was brave But thereby hangs a tale The moral lesson that Sanny gave Will for years prevail Auld Stinston folk never boast Now don't look so amazed There's not a man, on this coast Ought to be more praised A hero that's what Sanny was Tho not ...

A Glance Ahead The winter has been so very long I yearn to hear the lark It's a dreary life without a song When days are mostly dark. Spring had seemed so far away When I awoke this mom Would this be just another day I had learned to scorn. Then out of the blue across the sky The winds blew soft Sco...

Arran Tween Knockrivoch Mounds and Sorbie Tower Where I can view the firth And the air is filled with mystic power And nature leaps with mirth By a drystane dyke where March hares play I sat in awesome wonder As a fresh breeze blew the mists away And tore the clouds asunder. Slowly and solemnly from...

Why Did The Wind Die Why did the wind die Once in a fired day Was it to tease the trees At their summer play. Why did the wind die Once in. a silent night Was it to dress the trees Give them robes of white. Why did the wind die Once in a weary year Was it to silence the trees With silent windless f...

March 5th, 1965 Long service awards is an Ardeer occasion Now this annual event has become a tradition When workers and friends in Nobel's employ Give time honoured workers a night they enjoy Many were meeting old friends at long last Laughing and joking at tales from the past We honour each other f...

Scotland's Lonely Glens When mists caress the mountain domes Among the lonely glens And exiled hearts remember homes Aroon the heilan bens Their blood and tears forged a bond And heilan hearts will aye respond Aroon, the world to the far beyond In lonely glens. When snow covers the mountain domes A...

Epistle to Ben Mitchell My auld frien Ben have you demurred A man's only as good as his word Are we likely tae hae wordy clashes And jist for a measly load of ashes You promised truly to come and see me But aw you've done is sadly gree ...

Oor Ned Here among us from Carrick's shore From whence came Scotia's kings, Came Ned McQuat no crown he wore Great renown nor angels wings But gruff and ready always cheery, In, fact to be quite brief His helping hand was never weary He must have been a chief. He brought to us oor Rabbie's lore With...