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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'

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Hugh MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (Crìsdean Mac a' Ghreidhir) (August 11, 1892, Langholm - September 9, 1978, Edinburgh ), a significant Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a truly Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist. Unusually for a communist, he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote both in English and in literary Scots (often referred to as Lallans).

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