James Beattie
James Beattie
James Beattie FRSEwas a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 October 1735
hard shines steep temple
Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
amidst faith inflexible invincible patient serene though
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.
brought goals hopefully last progress score three undo
The gaffer brought me in to score goals and I have always said that is what I can do. One goal, or two or three could set it off and hopefully we can progress from there and not undo what we did last year.
dark rainbow setting
And lo! In the dark east, expanded high, the rainbow brightens to the setting sun.
call fans hard head lads loads support work
All I can do is keep my head down and I will keep working hard and if I get the call it would be brilliant. I have put in a lot of hard work and I have had loads of support from the lads and from the fans as well.