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MISCELLANEOUS 185
OMENS
I HEAKD the cuckoo with no food in my stomach,
I heard the stock-dove on tlie top of the tree,
I heard the sweet singer in the copse beyond,
And I heard the screech of the owl of the night.
I saw the lamb with his back to me,
I saw the snail on the bare flag-stone,
I saw the foal with his rump to me,
I saw the wheatear on a dyke of holes,
I saw the snipe while sitting bent,
And I foresaw that the year would not
Go well with me.

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Volume 2
DescriptionVolume 2. Uibe (incantations) Measgain (miscellaneous) Notes. Names of the reciters of the poems.
ShelfmarkBlair.62
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Carmina gadelica
Description"... hymns and incantations with illustrative notes on words, rites, and customs, dying and obsolete / orally collected in the Highlands and islands of Scotland and translated into English, by Alexander Carmichael." [Edinburgh] : Printed for the author, 1900 (by T. and A. Constable) Two volumes. 300 copies printed. Gaelic and English on opposite pages.
ShelfmarkBlair.61-62
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Blair Collection
DescriptionA selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray.
Early Gaelic Book Collections
DescriptionSelected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.