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The Eemis Stane
The Eemis Stane is Hugh MacDiarmid’s meditation on the world and humanity’s uncertain place in it. The poem is read by actor Stuart Edgar and animated by Orchar Productions.
The Eemis Stane
by Hugh MacDiarmid
I’ the how-dumb-deid o’ the cauld hairst nicht
The warl’ like an eemis stane
Wags i’ the lift;
An’ my eerie memories faw
Lik a yowdendrift.
Lik a yowdendrift so’s I couldna read
The words cut oot i’ the stane
Had the fug o’ fame
An’ history’s hazelraw
No’ yirdit thaim.