The Stones of Scotland, Edimbourg (Ecosse)

The Stones of Scotland, 32 pierres venues de toute sles régions d'Ecosse, en l'honneur du nouveau parlement. La fierté écossaire est sous-jacente.

Scotland

It requires great love of it deeply to read

The configuration of a land,

Gradually grow conscious of fine shadings.

Of great meanings in slight symbols.

Hear at last the great voice that speaks softly,

See the swell and fall upon the flank

Of a statue carved out in a whole country’s marble.

Be like Spring, like a hand in a window

Moving New and Old things carefully to and fro.

Moving a traction of flower here.

Placing an inch of air there,

And without breaking anything.

So I have gathered unto myself

All the loose ends of Scotland.

And by naming them and accepting them.

Attempt to express the while.

Hugh Mac Diarmid (1892 – 1978)