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. Summum Bonum
2. The Lights of London
3. York Stairs
4. For Izaak Walton
5. Vergniaud in the Tumbril

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