Carolina Quotes
Minnie, I canna caa my wheel, or spin the oo or twine the tweel. It's luve a laddie whammles me. Ech, the wanchancie glamarie.

Douglas Young Carolinian

Source

"Frae the Aiolic o Psappho". A Braird o Thristles (1947)

work
Translations into Scots
year
1947

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“Minnie, I canna caa my wheel, or spin the oo or twine the tw…” Douglas Young. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-A99F0AFC0E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/a99f0afc0e

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Deid sall ye ligg, and ne'er a memorie sall onie hain, or ae regret for ye, sin that ye haena roses o Pierie. In Hades' howff a gangrel ghaist ye'll flee, amang derk ghaists stravaigan sichtlesslie.
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