The Millennium Clock (In Scots)

Raxxin up like a mediaeval kirk 10 metres heich an mair, it merks the time Shawin the 20th century's best an warst The crypt's fand at the foun o this touer-hoose An auncient speerit carved frae aik bides thonner Alang wi a fey puggie, hingin breistit The puggie gars the clock's mechanics birl Daith as a skeleton striddles a keekin glaiss This is the nave- ugsome reflections splay O Lenin, Stalin, Hitler -despots aa -betimes A Chaplin figure lichtens the era's crimes The Belfry hauds the clock an requiem Twal bodies vrocht tae represent each month As weel's the waes that gar aa mankind grue War, slavery, stervation, persecution The clock's physog is skyrie coloured glaiss The spire is teem, barrin a single bell Richt at its pynt's a waesome-like Pièta Johann Sebastian Bach's dowie concerto A minor, sets the mood for sombre thocht Five maister makkars vrocht this muckle touer Kinetic sculptor, clock-makker, glaiss artist Illustrator an a skeelie jyner, their darg o pouer Gars public staun, think on the weird they'll dree The clock birrs on, like a fey threnody