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Your LIFE: TAM I' THE KIRK; REAL STORIES POETRY CORNER With Carol Ann Duffy ONE of Britain's most successful female poets, selects a poem for women and discusses its meaning...(Features)
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The Mirror (London, England)
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May 21, 2007
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Byline: Carol Ann Duffy
TAM I' THE KIRK
VIOLET JACOB
O Jean, my Jean, when the bell ca's the congregation
Owre valley an' hill wi' the ding frae its iron mou',
When a body's thochts is set on his ain salvation,
Mine's set on you.
There's a reid rose lies on the Buik o' the Word afore ye
That was growin' braw on its bush at the keek o' day,
But the lad that pu'd yon flower i' the mo...
