St. Andrew's Day

Happy St. Andrew's Day everyone! Fly your Saltires! I don't have much time to write anything today, but here's a poem I wrote a while ago about the Saltire:

To the Saltire

To our ancestors you showed yourself

On the bright blue Summer's sky

As a sign that they would win the day

As their enemies drew ever nigh.

The white cross of St. Andrew

Is your foreground fair,

And your background of the brightest blue

Is the sky of the Summer's air.

You've flown above the bloody field

Of many a battle won.

Since the days of brave Calgacus

'Till all our fighting will be done.

You were the standard of the normal Scots;

The crofters and the Highland men.

The Lion Rampant is fine for kings,

But you were good enough for them.

You are Scotland as it was and is

And you'll be here is years to come.

For something that has been here so long

Your legacy will forever go on.

You flew in the field with Wallace

And won Bannockburn with our Hero King.

You flew with Bonnie Charlie

And still fly more freely than bird on wing.

Happy will be the day wen you fly

Over a Scotland once more free;

To rid your land of the usurper

And fill the people's hearts with glee.

So keep on flying

For Scotland needs you still.

And one day we all hope to see

The White and Blue on every hill.

Slainte, Hazel