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In
the North West
Look
where the road, a spring uncoiling,
Leads
to the landscape of delight;
Follow
beyond the lonely shieling
The
heron’s heavy flight
White
on the lochan’s peat-stained water
Waxen
lily petals gleam;
Safe
in the reeds around its border
Brown
trout lurk and dream.
Sheer
from the moor the mountain rises,
Corrie
and stumbling scree;
Clear
from its crest the eagle gazes
Westward
to the sea
Across
the shore-line softly shading
Blue
to green to dazzling white
On
palest sand where surf is sliding -
The
Landscape of delight
Douglas
Fraser
1967 |