"Caller rain frae abune reeshles amang the epple-trees: the leaves are soughan wi the breeze, and sleep faas drappan doun."
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Poets from ScotlandTranslators from ScotlandPoliticians from ScotlandClassical scholarsUniversity of Aberdeen faculty
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"Frae the Aiolic o Psappho". A Braird o Thristles (1947)
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Douglas Young (classicist)
Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young (5 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish poet, scholar, translator and politician. He was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1942 to 1945 and was a classics professor at McMaster University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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