Oct 17, 2026, 2:00 PMFor Scotland I sing,
the Knox-ruined nation,
that poet and saint
must rebuild with their passion…
—George Mackay Brown, “Prologue”
This poem introduced his first poetry collection, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 (Orkney Press, 1954)
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