Loch Leven Heritage Trail
For the Loch Leven Heritage Trail, we composed six ‘fragments’
now carved on the rails of a bridge over a ‘cut’
built to provide water for downstream industry:
Sturdy Leven bridge, braced over working water |
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Sluice-curbed
Leven cut, carved out for working water |
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Snaking Leven river, replaced by working water |
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Languid Leven loch, lowered for working water |
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Thirsty Leven mills, maintained by working
water |
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Fertile Leven lands, left free from working
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We also wrote about 25 couplets for carving into specially-designed
benches like the one shown during installation. The
benches are at various locations around the Loch. Here
are four of the couplets:
The fisherman’s
friend is the flirty fly,
fickle food for fleeting fish
Skeelie hurlin
an cannie birlin
focht unfurlin fortouns frae curlin frost
Ducks dabble,
geese gather, swans swoop,
ducks dive, geese gobble, swans swank
Wee gallus quackies
hae bonnie feasties
oan snails an flees an wee black beasties
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