Hew Morrison Collection > Reminiscences of the life and labours of Dugald Buchanan, formerly teacher and evangelist at Rannock, Perthshire
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186 AX ENGLISH VEESIOX OF
THE SKULL.
As I sat by a grave,
Surveying the same,
A Skull I perceived on the ground ;
I brought it me nigh,
And I breathed a deep sigh.
As I turned it round and round.
Without beauty or breath,
Without knowledge in death.
Of any who passes it near.
Not a tooth could I trace,
Not a tongue in its place,
Nor a throat with its music to cheer.
No flush on that cheek,
'Tis both bare and bleak,
Without ear to hear my lay.
In its nostrils no breath,
But the stillness of death.
Its flesh is all wasted away !
Its eyes without light.
Without eyelids or sight,
lis footsteps to guide in the way.
The worms of the dust
Have made them a feast.
Scooping both of them clean away.
THE SKULL.
As I sat by a grave,
Surveying the same,
A Skull I perceived on the ground ;
I brought it me nigh,
And I breathed a deep sigh.
As I turned it round and round.
Without beauty or breath,
Without knowledge in death.
Of any who passes it near.
Not a tooth could I trace,
Not a tongue in its place,
Nor a throat with its music to cheer.
No flush on that cheek,
'Tis both bare and bleak,
Without ear to hear my lay.
In its nostrils no breath,
But the stillness of death.
Its flesh is all wasted away !
Its eyes without light.
Without eyelids or sight,
lis footsteps to guide in the way.
The worms of the dust
Have made them a feast.
Scooping both of them clean away.
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Hew Morrison Collection > Reminiscences of the life and labours of Dugald Buchanan, formerly teacher and evangelist at Rannock, Perthshire > (198) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75990308 |
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| Description | "With his Spiritual songs and an English version of them". |
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| Shelfmark | H.M.146 |
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| Description | A selection of items from a collection of 320 volumes and 30 pamphlets of literary and religious works in Scottish Gaelic. From the personal library of Hew Morrison, the first City Librarian of Edinburgh. |
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| Description | Selected 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. |
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