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Edinburgh from Arthur’s Seat. Castle to the left, St Giles the ’rounded’ spire in the middle, and Salisbury Crags to the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a poem which is ‘printed’ on the side of the Scottish Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Hugh MacDiarmid<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Edinburgh is a mad god\u2019s dream
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth,
But irresistibly at last
Cleaving to sombre heights
Of passionate imagining
Till stonily,
From soaring battlements,
Earth eyes Eternity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poem by Hugh MacDiarmid about Edinburgh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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