Hugh MacDiarmid - Edinburgh, Scotland
N 55° 57.264 W 003° 10.779
30U E 488782 N 6201019
A granite stone inscribed with a poem by Hugh MacDiarmid is embedded in the Democracie Cairn (also known as the Scottish Freedom Cairn) on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Waymark Code: WMMBPB
Location: Southern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/27/2014
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The gray granite stone is incised with black lettering and reads:
For we ha'e faith
in Scotland's hidden poo'ers.
The present's theirs
but a' the past and future's oors.
Hugh MacDiarmid
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"Christopher Murray Grieve, known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978) was a Scottish poet.
He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist; unusually for a communist, he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote both in English and in literary Scots (often referred to as Lallans)."