To pit in a concrete abstraction

My country’s contrair qualities,

And mak’ a unity o’ these

Till my love owre its history dwells,

As owretone to a peal o’ bells.

And in this heicher stratosphere

As bairn at giant at thee I peer....

O Jean, in whom my spirit sees,

Clearer than through whisky or disease,

Its dernin’ nature, wad the searchin’ licht