© by Maurice Lindsay (1918 - 2009)

Willie Wabster
Language: English 
Hae ye seen Willie Wabster?
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Modern English translation (Willie Webster), also by the author:
Have you seen Willie Webster?
He's well known from Scrabster
South to the silver Tweed.
He runs his fingers through the sky
To keep the stars a moving:
When thunder clouds go slowly by,
He gives them each a shoving.
And when the moon offends his sight,
He casts it o'er his shoulder;
So as to snuff the sun's bright light
His winds go swaggering bolder.
Have you seen Willie Webster?
He's well known from Scrabster
South to the silver Tweed.
He makes the raindrops out of heav'n
Come driving on the town
In ribbons all the colours seven,
He drops and dangles down.
Small wonder that I'm often scared,
For I'm not certain whether
He's God himself, the Lord of the world
Or just his clerk of weather.

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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-22
Line count: 22
Word count: 123