Seeker, Reaper Quotes

“When my gunnel's worn wi raspin nets,
and my sides are white we salt,
when my ropes unlay wi haulin
and my steerin's aa at fault;
when my seams are chinked and strakes are crushed,
and the decks are tramped tae spales,
when the length o me is sterted
wi hammerin intae gales,
when my motor scarce can drive me
from off some wild sea-shore,
then anchor me in Tarbert,
gie me chain. And no afore
aa the points o Scotland
wi their wheelin lights in turn
I've raised them bright ahead,
and I've sunk then las astern,
scourin by the heidlands
where new lights burn.”
― George Campbell Hay, Seeker, Reaper