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...m the Lochs Chon and Ard,
There the angler can make a catch which will his toil reward. 

And between the two lochs the Glasgow Water Works are near,
Which convey water of Loch Katrine in copious streams clear
To the inhabitants of the Great Metropolis of the West,
And for such pure water they should think themselves blest. 

The oak and birch woods there are beautiful to view,
Also the Ochil hills which are blue in hue,
Likewise the Lake of Menteith can be seen far eastward,...Read more of this...

...en I was brash and gallant-gay
Just fifty years ago,
I hit the ties and beat my way
From Maine to Mexico;
For though to Glasgow gutter bred
A hobo heart had I,
And followed where adventure led,
Beneath a brazen sky.

And as I tramped the railway track
I owned a single shirt;
Like canny Scot I bought it black
So's not to show the dirt;
A handkerchief held all my gear,
My razor and my comb;
I was a freckless lad, I fear,
With all the world for home.

Yet oh I thought the life w...Read more of this...

...Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean,
Your stateley mansions, and beautiful Green!
Likewise your beautiful bridges across the River Clyde,
And on your bonnie banks I would like to reside. 

Chorus --

Then away to the west -- to the beautiful west!
To the fair city of Glasgow that I like the best,
Where the River Clyde rolls on to the sea,
And the la...Read more of this...

...,
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand. 
And as I gaze upon it, let me pause and think,
How many people in Glasgow of its water drink,
That's conveyed to them in pipes from its placid lake,
And are glad to get its water their thirst to slake. 

Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time,
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime;
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland,
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand. 
The mountains on eith...Read more of this...

...un down out of the
 wind and uncover its face."
She raised the shawl and said "He is two weeks old. His mother died in
 Glasgow in the hospital
Where he was born. She was my sister." I looked ahead at the bleak island,
 gray stones, ruined castle,
A few gaunt houses under the high and comfortless mountain; my wife
 looked at the sickly babe,
And said "There's a good doctor in Barra? It will soon be winter." "Ah,"
 she answered, "Barra'd be heaven for him,
The poor wee thing, ...Read more of this...

...arves of Manhattan, steam’d up, ready to start; 
Wait, swift and swarthy, in the ports of Australia;
Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux,
 the
 Hague, Copenhagen; 
Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama; 
Wait at their moorings at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
 Galveston,
 San
 Francisco. 

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I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth; 
I see them welding State to State, city to city, thro...Read more of this...

...d us water, oh, we'll get it from the devil; 
Yes, we'll get it from the devil deeper down. 
Now, our engine's built in Glasgow by a very canny Scot, 
And he marked it twenty horse-power, but he don't know what is what: 
When Canadian Bill is firing with the sun-dried gidgee logs, 
She can equal thirty horses and a score or so of dogs. 
Sinking down, deeper down, 
Oh, we're going deeper down: 
If we fail to get the water, then it's ruin to the squatter, 
For the drought is on...Read more of this...

...y the 12th of November,
Which the people of Aberfeldy and elsewhere will remember,
Who came all the way from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and Dundee,
Besides the Pitlochry Volunteers headed the procession right manfully. 

And the Perthshire Rifies joined the procession with their pipe band,
Then followed a detachment of the 42nd Righlanders so grand,
Under the command of Lieutenant McCleod,
Whose duty if was to represent the regiment of which he felt proud. 

The pipe band of t...Read more of this...

...peats from the bog far away."
"Then marry me, Belle, and peats you shall never carry again,
And we might take a trip to Glasgow and there remain." 

Then she answered him crossly, "I wish you wouldn't bother me,
For I'm tired of this kind of talk, as you may see."
So at last there came a steamer to Ruily one day,
So big that if almost seemed to fill the bay. 

Then Belle and Effie Mackinnon came to the door with a start,
While Belle's red, pouting lips were wide apart;
But wh...Read more of this...

...o' my body, and Mac was my oldest friend,
I've never asked 'im to dinner, but he'll see it out to the end.
Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul,
But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.
He'll take the Mary in ballast -- you'll find her a lively ship;
And you'll take Sir Anthony Gloster, that goes on 'is wedding-trip,
Lashed in our old deck-cabin with all three port-holes wide,
The kick o' the screw beneath him and the ro...Read more of this...

...s 
offshore in quarantine before the passengers
disembarked. There a story ends. Other ships 
arrived, "Tancred" out of Glasgow, "The Neptune"
registered as Danish, "Umberto IV," 
the list goes on for pages, November gives 
way to winter, the sea pounds this alien shore. 
Italian miners from Piemonte dig 
under towns in western Pennsylvania 
only to rediscover the same nightmare 
they left at home. A nine-year-old girl travels 
all night by train with one suitcase and an oran...Read more of this...

...warehouse, now destroyed, was occupied by the Messrs R. Wylie, Hill & Co.,
Situated in Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow. 

The flames burst forth about three o'clock in the afternoon,
And intimation of the outbreak spread very soon; 
And in the spectators' faces were depicted fear and consternation; 
While the news flew like lightning to the Fire Brigade Station. 

And when the Brigade reached the scene of the fire,
The merciless flames were ascending higher and highe...Read more of this...

...afar. 

"I am no soldier at all, 
Only an engineer; 
But I could not bear that the folk should say 
Over in Scotland -- Glasgow way -- 
That Hector Clark stayed here 
With the Scots Brigade till the foe was gone, 
With ever a rail to run her on. 
Ready behind! Stand clear! 

"Fireman, get you gone 
Into the armoured train -- 
I will drive her alone; 
One more trip -- and perhaps the last -- 
With a well-raked fire and an open blast; 
Hark to the rifles again!" 

On through th...Read more of this...

...e face;
He bit a Bailie in the leg.

What tragic choices such a dog
Presents to visitor or friend!
Outside there is the Glasgow fog;
Within, a hydrophobic end.

Yet some relief even terror brings,
For when our life is cold and gray
We waste our strength on little things,
And fret our puny souls away.

A snarl! A scruffle round the room!
A sense that Death is drawing near!
And human creatures reassume
The elemental robe of fear.

So when my colleague makes his moan
Of careless...Read more of this...

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