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Ti MODERN GAELIC BARDS.
A town that must not yield to it
In tliis whole realm is none.
So many gentlemen are there,
Of tribute raising line —
Men who may daily quench their thirst
With the good Spanish wine.
Though great and long the distance
From Glasgow unto Perth,
Yet am I sure, although I saw
Each mansion there of worth,
I could see none more charming
Than the Abbey or the Bank ;
Or houses rich and large, whose guests
Might be of kingly rank.
FEOM THE "SONG OF GLENORCHY,"
The Bard's birth-place, and where there is now an appropriate
monument erected to his memory. Contributions to the fund for
raising this well deserved monument, camefrom all parts of the
world.
CLACHAN-au-Diseirt,*
How pleasant to be there.
Sitting in its wondrous church,
Its pew so richly fair;
And listening to his mellow voice,
Whose counsels none should spurn,
* The derivation of this name is interesting. " Clachan " means, in the
first place, a village where there is a place of worship. Clachan-an-diseirt
is resolved then into " Clachan an De 's àirde," i.e. The worshipping
place of the Highest God. This name, like Dundee, had its origin pro-
bably in early pagan times.