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'Love', after Miroslav Holub By Jim Mainland

Translated into Shetland dialect by Jim Mainland

Love
(After Miroslav Holub)

Twa thoosan fags.
A hunder mile
fae daek ta daek.
An age an a haaf o waitin
fir somethin ta click.

A mird o wirds
flachterin lik birds.

A hunder books we didna write.
A hunder brochs we didna big.

A year lost ida moorie o da mind.
A twalmont sequestered in a sooth-wast wind.

Möld.
Ess.

An it swees lik da beginnin
o da world.

Hear me whin I tell de,
it wis boanie.

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