Calbharaigh
Chan eil mo shùil air Calbharaigh
no air Betlehem an àigh
ach air cùil ghrod an Glaschu
far bheil an lobhadh fàis,
agus air seòmar an Dùn Èideann,
seòmar bochdainn ’s cràidh,
far a bheil an naoidhean creuchdach
ri aonagraich gu bhàs.
Calvary
My eye is not on Calvary
nor on Bethlehem the Blessed,
but on a foul-smelling backland in Glasgow,
where life rots as it grows;
and on a room in Edinburgh,
a room of poverty and pain,
where the diseased infant
writhes and wallows till death.
More eggs:
- The Sorley MacLean archive - Somhairle MacGill-Eain Air-Loidhne
- The Child Poverty Action Group
- BBC report, Scottish child poverty hotspots revealed
- Lastly, independence of a nation and the eradication of poverty do not necessarily go hand in hand. However, looking at this international prosperity index which reveals that 5 of the world's most prosperous nations are small northern European nations not dissimilar to Scotland, then it begs the question, 'Just what are we doing wrong?'. Their definition of 'prosperity' is also interesting. The 2011 Legatum Prosperity Index
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