<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416131" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shires on the Moray Frith</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Worthy of either song or story<br>Are the Shires found Frith of Moray.<br>Here lies the valley of Strathspey,<br>Famed for its music-lively, gay.<br>Elgin cathedral's 'prentice aisle<br>Is glory of that ruined pile.<br>What modern chisel now could trace<br>Fine scuplture of that ancient place?<br>And Forres, famed for Sweyn's stane,<br>In honor of that kingly Dane.<br>'Graved with warriors' runes and rhyme<br>Long prior to historic times.<br>For a thousand years it's been forgot<br>Who was victor-Dane or Scot.<br>It is the country of Macbeth,<br>Where good King Duncan met his death,<br>And Barren Heath-that place of fear-<br>Stood witches' cauldron of Shakespeare.<br>Nairn's Cawdor Castle strong remains-<br>Full worthy of the ancient Thanes.<br>And nestled 'neath the hills and bens,<br>Queen of the moors, the loch's and glens,<br>Full proudly stands, in vale of bliss,<br>Chief Highland town of Inverness.<br>Near here the famous Falls of Foyers,<br>Where Burns and others tuned their lyres.<br>And the fatal field of dark Culloden,<br>Where doughty clans wore once down trodden<br>Here men yet wear the tartan-plaid,<br>Ready to join the Highland Brigade.<br>And when the Frith you look across.<br>The eye beholds Sutherland and Ross,<br>Where Duke hath harnessed mighty team,<br>Plows hills, and rocks, and moors by steam;,<br>Perhaps it may in part atone<br>For cruel clearings days by-gone.<br>And Cromarty, whose wondrous mason<br>First learned his geologic lesson ;<br>Friends may rear a stately pillar ..<br>The ' Old Red Sandstone ' of Hugh Miller.<br>Ben Wyvis towers, like monarch crowned,<br>Conspicious o'er the hills around,<br>With crest e'er white with driven snow ;<br>Strathpeffer's water-cure below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416131" data-title="The Shires on the Moray Frith de James McIntyre" data-description="Worthy of either song or story Are the Shires found Frith of Moray. Here lies the valley of Strathspey, Famed for its music-lively, gay. Elgin cathedral's 'prentice aisle Is glory of that ruined pile. What modern chisel now could trace Fine scuplt..."></div> </div> </div>

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