An Comunn Gàidhealach Publications > Gaidheal > Volumes 44--45, January 1949--December 1950

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imprisonment. Her close friend,
Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, M.P.
for Inverness, whose praises she
often lauded in her poems, seems
to have intervened on her
behalf with the result that she was
soon afterwards set free.
That is the story I used to hear
in Skye, but I have no proof
whatever that it is the true
version.
Perhaps some readers of An
Gaihdeal may be able to throw
further light on this matter. At
the time it was fully declared that
Mkiri Mhor was unjustly accused,
and that must certainly have been
true if the circumstances of the
case are in accordance with the
story which I have related.
John N. MacLeod.
AM BREACAN
A Charaid,—Chan ’eil e gu dragh
ged a chidhte Gall is Sasannach
leis an fheile bheag (ged is iomadh
rud as docha leam fhein fhaicinn
na an Sasannach leis), ach is ann
leis a’ Ghaidheal a tha am feile-
beag gu buan. Sin fior shuaich-
eantas a dhaoine riamh o thus
agus chan fhacas a sheorsa riamh
cruinn an cogadh no sith an
comhdhail gun_ feile beag, piob-
mhor, is Gkidhlig.
Chan eagal do’n phiob-mhoir
agus chan eagal do’n fhidheall,
ach tha cleachdadh is tuilleadh
cleachdaidh a dhith a nis air an
dk ni eile!
“Bu mhaith an Ik ’s an oidhche
thu,
Bha loinn ort am beinn ’s an
cladach. ’ ’
“Chan fhaca tu mac mathar air
sraid no faiche
As deise na mac Gaidheil le shar
phearsain. ’ ’
Gu dileas,
L.P.B.
MAR THA ’S MAR BHA
“Bha ’n sruth mar bha a ruith gu
trkigh,
’S na fluirean fits m’a bhruachaibh;
Bha e6in nan speur air bhkrr nan
geug
A’ seinn gu h-eibhinn guanach,
Ach dhomhsa cha robh ni mar
bha. ’ ’
AN deidh sgaradh bhliadhnachan
bho k'te a’ bhreith is kraich,
thkinig am bkrd air ais agus
cha d’fhuair e “nl mar bha.’’
Nach lionmhor iad a fhuair iad
fhein anns an dearbh shuidh-
eachadh, ged nach robh iad
comasachadh mar am bkrd air
luaidh a dheanamh air an smaoin-
tean agus am faireachdainn ? Is e
cridhe fuaraidh nach deanadh
ionndrainn air ckirdean is eolaich
a b’aithne dha. Chan e a mhain
“na daoine bh’ann, nach maireann
iad, ’ ’ ach tha caochladh air iomadh
rud eile. Cha b’e a’ Bheinn
Dobhrain a dh’fhkg Donnchadh
Bkn a fhuair e, nuair a thill e—
“’S a’ bheinn is beag a shaoil mi
Gun deanadh ise caochladh. ’ ’
Air mo thurus fhuair mi aon ni
“mar bha” an laithean m’oige.
Ann am bruidheann ri ckch a
cheile, no mu chkch a cheile, cha
robh sloinneadh ’ga chleachdadh.
Anns an t-seagh sin bha an sgire
fhathast, mar a bha i uair-eigin
ann an iomadh rud eile, mar aon
teaghlach. ’S e theireadh iad,
“Domhnall Chaluim,” “Iain
Mhurchaidh,” “Peigi Mhurchaidh
Iain; ” no, gu trie, far-ainm.
“Co,” thuirt mi ris a’ cheathar-
nach, “am fear tha siud?”
“Siud,” ars esan, “an Clamhan,
brathair a’ Chalmain.”
“Agus,” arsa mise, “co e an
Caiman ? ’ ’
“Tha e fuireach air a’ Cheann-
shios. Cha chuala mise ainm
eile a riamh air ach an Caiman! ’ ’
Ri linn Phkdraig cha robh sgoil
Bheurla ann, agus ars e fhein,
“Chaidh m’ainm’s mo shloinneadh
ann an seotal na ciste an Ik a
bhaisteadh mi, agus cha chuala mi
mo shloinneadh air ainmeachadh
gus na leugh fear an taigh-
chuspainn, air paipear a chuir e
’nam Ikimh, an la a ghabh e mi
dh’an Reserve ,‘¥e&tzr Ma-Cloud ! ” ’
A. M.
TRUAIGHE NA H-EORPA
Tha muir shnaidhte na h-E6rpa
shios ’nan torr air a raointean.
Tha an grkbhaladh krsaidh
air a sgkineadh is gaorr air.
Tha d liith-shreathan a tiiirean
’nam mion-sprtiidhlich air
aomadh.
Tha muinntir a tallachan
sgapte air faontra.
Is luaineach, Ikn airce,
Oidhch’ is latha a daoine.
Chaidh geur-ghuth an truaighe
thar cruaidh-ghkir a gaothan.
Dh’fhalbh bharr na h-E6rpa
trian de ’boidhehead seimh aosda.
Sean tearmunn na h-ealain,
cridhe meachair na daondachd.
Och, Rubha na h-Aisia, •
Bklcan an t-saoghail!
Deorsa Caimbeul Hay.
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