A Glasgow nonsense rhyme for Molly Poem by Liz Lochhead

A Glasgow nonsense rhyme for Molly

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Molly Pin Li McLaren,
come home and look
at the pictures in your brand-new book -
a tree, a bird, a fish, a bell,
a bell, a fish, a tree, a bird.
Point, wee Molly, and say the word!

Oh, Molly, I wish
you the moon as white and round as a dish
and a bell, a tree, a bird and a fish.

Touch! Taste! Look! Smell!
(tree, fish, bird, bell)
And listen, wee Molly, listen well
to the wind,
to the wind in the tree go swish
(bird, bell, tree, fish)
to the shrill of the bird and the plop of the fish
and the clang of the bell
and the stories they tell
the stories they tell,
Molly, the tree, the bird, the fish and the bell.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bill Wright 08 September 2016

I love it. Folk who don't know Glasgow will not know that the city coat of arms contains a book, bell, tree and fish.

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