CROSSANS ~ Hellraisers of Castlemilk

Sláinte

No one in Scotland can escape from the past. It is everywhere, haunting like a ghost.   To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet, and is carried about as a burden.   The many ghosts are always a part of them,   inescapable.     Geddes MacGregor

	gjdoxfjdjdxj Fierce with our Hellraising, Yet fiercer with Our Love. For Always, Forever, Together. NORTHERN LIGHTS CROOKTREE gjdoxfjdjdxj gjdoxfjdjdxj Ireland - My Ancestry Scotland - My Heritage California - My Birthplace gjdoxfjdjdxj gjdoxfjdjdxj   Home IRELAND Home was home then, My Dear, full of kindly faces. Fair the day shine as it shone on my childhood – Fair shine the day on the house with open door; Lone stands the House, now the Friends are all departed, The kind hearts, the True Hearts, that loved the place of old. I go forever and come again no more. gjdoxfjdjdxj For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in an attitude towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. Robert Louis Stevenson gjdoxfjdjdxj   The Clans of Scotland     The Clans of Scotland will never demise, The Loyalty of such you must realize, With the Skirl of the Pipes  And the Swing of the Kilt, Brings a Power that will ne'er wilt!   gjdoxfjdjdxj The Scots Character is Forged in Granite That is no Timid Reed. Shaken by the Wind. Many's the men who've battled foe Many the number slain Many the lads have fallen though Scotland shall rise again. Go bhfana í ngrá linn,  Iad siúd atá í ngrá linn.     Iad siúd nach bhfuil, Go gcasa Dia a gcroíthe.   Agus muna gcasann Sé a gcroíthe  Go gcasa Sé caol na coise acu  Go n-aithneoimid iad as a mbacadaíl.      Go mbeannaí Dia duit!   gjdoxfjdjdxj gjdoxfjdjdxj   When I'm Old and Wise BEN LOMOND Bitter words mean little to me.   gjdoxfjdjdxj   Autumn Winds will blow right through me BEN LOMOND And someday in the Mist of Time    gjdoxfjdjdxj   When they asked me if I knew you      I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine.   gjdoxfjdjdxj   And the Sadness would be Lifted from my eyes.     As far as my eyes can see,   gjdoxfjdjdxj   There are Shadows surrounding me.     And to those I leave behind,   gjdoxfjdjdxj I want you all to know You've always Shared my Darkest hours I'll miss you when I go,    Sláinte  -- Cheers!   gjdoxfjdjdxj   In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me,