‘Farewell, aad tree!
where once the craws
in times gyen bye
did nest an’ build;
ne mair ye’ll feel
thor dusty claws
cling te yor branch,
for noo yor kill’d.’
(written in 1889 after the felling of a large elm tree on Barras Bridge, Haymarket, Newcastle, from which the old ‘Crow’s Nest’ pub took its name)
