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The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
The title of Hugh MacDiarmid’s poem The Bonnie Broukit Bairn portrays the Earth as a beautiful but neglected child. In the poem, Mars and Venus are glamorous and grown up, the Moon vain and condescending. But perspectives soon change in this thought-provoking Scots poem read by actor Clare Yuille and animated by Orchar Productions.
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
by Hugh MacDiarmid
Mars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers,
Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’
Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn!
– But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun
The haill clanjamfrie!