Poem by Louise Imogen Guiney

The Graham Tartan to a Graham

Use me in honour: cherish me
As ivy from a sacred tree.
Mine in the winds of war to close
Around the armour of Montrose,
And kiss the death-wound of Dundee.

Yet fear not me, nor such estate
Heroic and inviolate;
But green-and-white-and-azure wind
About thy body and thy mind,
And by that length enlarge thy fate!

1. The Vigil-at-Arms
2. When on the Marge of Evening
3. Strikers in Hyde Park
4. For Izaak Walton
5. Valediction: R. L. S., 1894

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