Elegy for a Scottish Athlete

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A poem about a Scottish Hill Runner:

At running races, short or lang,
I wat ye couldna come him wrang:
When to the hill wi’ furious thrang
They swat an fyked,
The first half-mile he let them gang
As fast’s they liked-

But fleeting hameward on the track,
When little headway they could mak’,
He led the whazzlin’ stragglers back
In proud career,
Fu’ fleetly springing and as swack
As ony deer.

Elegy on the Death of James Flemming
by James Kennedy, 1848-1922

Published in "Running in Literature"
by Roger Robinson, ISBN 1891369415