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the saltire ~ the lion rampant Few flags could be as contrasting as the national and the royal flags of Scotland. While the Lion Rampant is officially restricted to use by officers of state, the Saltire is flown in numerous public places and sported by revellers worldwide. The Saltire Stour has settled in the camphor grooves of my grandmother’s old kist. I prise the sprung padlock from its moorings, reveal many years of hoarding, indulge in what my mother called a reenge, unearthing objects long forgotten. The conch shell with the sea trapped in its ears, a rain-stick purchased after too much wine, sepia snaps of relatives, all gone. And in an unfamiliar cardboard box, I find what I’ve been searching for; a startling blue and white St Andrews cross, the scent of jute and resin in its folds. I feel the warp and weft of it in my hands and as the dark creeps in to fill your empty shoes, I’m minded of the promise I made you. The day will dawn, the flag unfurled. I pause, reflect on the alchemy of memory and love. Lydia Robb 14 the saltire ~ the lion rampant
The Lion Rampant We Scots are a free reenge breed See the diaspora? Like thrissle seeds in a gale We’re aawye, ony wee crack or neuk’ll dae Fur us tae sattle, trailin oor reets Like navel towes, tied tae Mither Caledonia Stirling, Bannockburn, Falkirk, Otterburn, Flodden, Culloden The bluid o a warrior tribe rins ben oor veins Bratach rìoghail na h-Alba’s The sail that steers oor boatie. Hector MacKay in Quebec weirs The Lion rampant on his t-shirt, Proodly on Hogmanay Elroy Zanzibar-Farquharson in Jamaicay Has stukken a lion magnet on his fridge Och ay the noo he says As he cracks open anither tinnie Felicity Menzies jogs aroon New York Wi a lion rampant frontin the peak o her cap She ains twa cds o the Glesga polis pipe band In Majorca, Rab C. Buchan Dichts the san frae his taes Wi a Lion rampant tool Thon lion gaes aawye Pencils, shortbreid tinnies, car stickers It’s aa tae dae wi attitude Nemo me impune lacessit Mess wi me an I’ll batter ye. Sheena Blackhall the saltire ~ the lion rampant 15
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