Life’s connached shapes too’er up in croons o’ glory,

Perpetuatin’, natheless, in their gory

Colour the endless sacrifice and pain

That to their makin’s gane.

The roses like the saints in Heaven treid

Triumphant owre the agonies o’ their breed,

And wag fu’ mony a celestial heid

Abune the thorter-ills o’ leaf and prick

In which they ken the feck maun stick.

Yank oot your orra boughs, my hert!