Working far from home on the Rand, Charles Murray wrote these poems in the Scots of his native Aberdeenshire, longing for heather and the Howe o’ Alford. They people a whole parish: the miller, the packman, the antiquary, the lettergae, a provost who stays “My Lord” for life, and spring and Yule in the north-east countryside.
Much-loved Doric verse, introduced by Andrew Lang, for anyone with an ear for Burns and the Scots tongue. Download the free EPUB.