DEAR BROTHER FRIEND
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DEAR BROTHER FRIEND
                 (Elegy)

Perplexing is the distance we’re apart

And yet I look beyond,

     I’m grateful for the times we had,

          Now even as we part

                      I’m glad,

               We share that bond.

 

The joy of youth and laughter we endure

          It never seems to end,

     Yet still our friendship, truth to tell,

          Is timeless and secure,

                      And well—

               Dear brother friend.

 

Death cannot still my every thought of you 

          While mighty oceans rave,

     As mortal flesh secedes its powers

          I’ll place these words anew

                      Like flowers,

               Upon your grave!

   William Davidson
  02/01/11
  In Memory 

Links to Poems of Maybole and Carrick by William Davidson
INTRODUCTION
BIRTHDAY EPISTLE To Robert Burns Your presence is requested  February 4th, 2017 at 6:30 P.M.
DEAR BROTHER FRIEND KIRKLAND STREET IS THE PIPER O'KILBARCHAN DEAD?

A BIRTHDAY EPISTLE TO ROBERT BURNS

 I DREAM OF JOURNEY'S END SCHOOL MATES
THE CAPITAL OF CARRICK

I LOVE YOU CALEDONIA

SCOTTISH BARDS
THE BATTLE AT DUNEANE GOAT'S GREEN THE BEECH TREE
MY AULD FRIEN’ MACINTOSH KILHENZIE GLEN THE BONNIE RIVER STINCHAR
TAKE ME HOME LAND OF MIRTH  THE GARPIN
BALLANTRAE MOCHRUM SHADOWS THE GIRVAN
AULD HARRY PEDEN'S THORN WHERE THE STINCHAR FLOWS

EPISTLE TO GEORGE MACMILLAN DAVIDSON

 A SON'S FAREWELL THE PRINCE O’ STANDART HABBIE

Copyright ©

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About the Author

William F. Davidson was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1939. Raised in Maybole, he attended Cairn Primary School & Carrick Academy before emigrating to Canada in October 1956. He traveled throughout Canada and the United States for three years before taking up permanent residence in New York in 1959. Mr. Davidson has also lived and worked in Australia for two years. He is married with one son. Several family members continue to live in Maybole. E-mail wdavidson44@gmail.com Photo: William Davidson with his wife Helga.