Can turn the mid-day black or midnicht bricht,

Lowse me frae licht or eke frae darkness free.

Bite into me forever mair and lift

Me clear o’ chaos in a great relief

Till, like this thistle in the munelicht growin’,

I brak in roses owre a hedge o’ grief....

I am like Burns, and ony wench

Can ser’ me for a time.

Licht’s in them a’—in some a sun,

In some the merest skime.