Scotland
The land of meanness and of whisky,
stark rationalism and common sense
and splendid clarity in engineering,
with one of the finest capitals in Europe,
tragic freedom fighter never reaching independence,
but heroic nonetheless in all those bloody efforts, –
what a passion play of history
with Mary Queen of Scots a central figure
for all pure romanticism in Europe,
that actually was born in Scotland
with the bard McPherson and his Ossian songs,
resulting in explosions of romanticism all over Europe,
not just with Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott,
but carried on by Stevenson and Conan Doyle,
two geniuses of clarity and unsurpassed
as brilliant story tellers of inspiring imagination.
Well, your medicine remains the best and most reliable
on earth, for which I always shall remain most grateful,
willingly forgetting your inhospitable meanness
for the splendour of your Highlands
and their dreams of freedom that will never die.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-09-17 at 10:17
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