Listen to the world’s best poetry read out loud.

Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry;

take sleet, the driving snow, the hail;

winter twilight; the summer’s sun slowed down

to pearl-sheen dusk on hillsides, city-roofs,

on lochs at midnight.

And, most of all, take the years that have already run

to dust, the dust we spill behind us . . .

All this, distil. And cask. And wait.

The senselessness of human things resolves

to who we are – our present fate.

Let’s taste, let’s savour and enjoy.

Let’s share once more.

Another glass for absent friends. Pour

until the bottle’s done.

Here’s life! Here’s courage to go on!