voar  -  the burn's tuin

hus the bodach jiggin

...in's heid!

spring  -  the stream's tune

has the old man dancing

...in his head!

waashin day  -

spewin sheets

cumulus cluds

washing day  -

billowing sheets

cumulus clouds

bowsterous wund  

treen threshin  -

skeery i the craw's nest

fierce wind

trees thrashing  -

scary in the crow's nest

scutchin the hedge

he reflecks

on the lenth o's baird

trimming the hedge

he reflects

on the length of his beard

the gairden's furst bummer  -

its slaw daunce

the gawpin flooer

the garden's first bee   -

its slow dance

the gaping flower

maggie tummles

doon throuch nakit brainches  -

ma penny arcade

magpie tumbles

down through naked branches  -

my penny arcade

the thowin burn  -

the lipper o voar

a' whaur

the thawing stream  -

the ripple of spring

everywhere

fir aw oor weirs

thae buds haud forrit

frae an airt whaur life's unsteert

for all our wars

these buds spring forth

from a place where life is untouched