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I Leave Tonight From Euston, by A​.​M. Lawrence (poem)

from an t​-​Each​-​Iarainn [The Iron Horse] by Hamish Napier

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You know the ‘Green Loch’ in Glenmore, near Aviemore? Well, just above that famous faery loch is a slot between two steep hills, and there’s a popular little stone bothy called Revoan Bothy. For many years there was a gorgeous poem pinned to the wall of the bothy - everyone loved the sentiment of it. It just said ‘Anon’ on it but eventually in the 1970s a letter in The Scotsman newspaper revealed that a woman, A. M. Lawrence wrote it. As a child she had holidayed in Nether Bridge, and walked into Revoan rom there through Tulloch and Forest Lodge - it was a place very dear to her. My Grandfather, Findlay Cumming, while studying mathematics at the University of Glasgow, used to get the train home to Aviemore at weekends in winter, take the bus to the foot of Cairngorm and walk all the way up the hill from the bottom with heavy wooden skis to ski on the virgin snow the Coire Cas on Cairngorm Mountain. They were HARDY back then eh! The railway has always been a crucial part of people’s accessibility and connection to the wilderness.

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I Leave Tonight From Euston By A.M. Lawrence
The poem I leave tonight from Euston was written by a lady called A M Lawrence who lived at Burgh on Sands, Cumbria in the 1950’s, and who spent a good deal of her childhood at Nethy Bridge. The poem was mentioned in an article by the late, great, Irvine Butterfield in one of the Scottish Mountaineer magazines about Lost Bothies in the Cairngorms. There is a tradition that a copy of the poem is kept on the door at Ryvoan."

I shall leave tonight from Euston
By the seven-thirty train,
And from Perth in the early morning
I shall see the hills again.

From the top of Ben Macdhui
I shall watch the gathering storm,
And see the crisp snow lying
At the back of Cairngorm.

I shall feel the mist from Bhrotain
and the pass by Lairig Ghru
To look on dark Loch Einich
From the heights of Sgoran Dubh.

From the broken Barns of Bynack
I shall see the sunrise gleam
On the forehead of Ben Rinnes
And Strathspey awake from dream.

And again in the dusk of evening
I shall find once more alone
The dark water of the Green Loch,
And the pass beyond Ryvoan.

For tonight I leave from Euston
And leave the world behind;
Who has the hills as a lover,
Will find them wondrous kind.

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from an t​-​Each​-​Iarainn [The Iron Horse], released December 14, 2023
Poem by A. M. Lawrence
Recited by Hamish Napier

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Hamish is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from the Scottish Highlands.

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