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Alex Salmond
O is he dead then?
say the waters of Loch Leven
Alex Salmond
Ó, an marbh atá sé?
a deir uiscí Loch Lìobhan
Alex Salmond
fegs! is he deid then?
threep the watters o Loch Leven
Scots: John McDonald
The English version of this haiku (or senryu) echoes a sonnet by G. M. Hopkins, Felix Randal, (1880) which also contains the poet-priest's blessing:
