Hew Morrison Collection > Sar-obair nam bard gaelach, or, The beauties of Gaelic poetry

AIREAMH TAGHTA
DE
SHAR-OBAIR NAM BARD GAELACH;
OR
A CHOICE COLLECTION
OF
THE BEAUTIES OF GAELIC POETRY,
ORIGINAL AND SELECT.
The following songs and poems are the productions of gentlemen, who invoked
the muse only on rare occasions, and under the impulse of strong feelings excited by ex-
traordinary events ; — or, of individuals of whose history little is known to the world, and
whose works were not suificiently voluminous to entitle them to a place among the pro-
fessed or recognised bards. When the tide of chivalry ran high in the Highlands, and
ere the Gaelic ceased to be spoken in the chiefs hall, it was deemed no disparagement to
people of the highest rank to imbody their feelings on any subject in Keltic poetry.
Many of these pieces are of commanding merit, and it is hoped that they will form an
appropriate and valuable appendage to this work. So far as practicable, the paternity
of the poem is given, and such historical and illustrative notes are interspersed as the
full elucidation of the subject seemed to require.
MOLAUH CHABAIR-FEIDH
LE TORJIOD DAN MAC-LEOID.
Deoch-slainte ' chabair foidh so
Gur h-eibhinn 's gur haighearach ;
Ge fada bho thir fein e,
JVIhic Dhe gveas g'a fhearann e ;
INIo chrochadh a's mo cheusadh,
A's m' eideadh nar mheala mi,
RIuv ait learn thu bhi 'g eiridlj
Le treuii neart gach caraide !
Gur mise chunna' sibh gu guniiach,
Ealamh, ullamh, acuinneach ;
Uuith nan Rothacli 's math 'ur gnothach,
Thug sibh sothadli maidne dhaibh ;
Cha deach' Cataich air an tapadh,
Dh'fhag an neart le eagal iad,
Hi faicinn ceann an fheidh ort
'Nuair dh'eirich do chabar ort !
Be'n t-amadan fear Fòluis,
'Nuair thòisich e cogadh riut ;
Ilothaich agus Ròsaich—
Bu ghòrach na bodaieh iad ;
Frisealaich a's Granndaich,
An campa cha stadadh iad ;
'S thug Foirbeisich nan teann-ruith,
Gu seann taigh Chuilodair orr'.
Theich iad uiie 's cha dh-fhuirich
An treas duine 'bh'aca-san ;
An t-Iarla Catach ruith e dliachaigli —
Cha do las a dhagachan ;
Mac-Aoidh nan creach gun thar e as,
'S ann dh'eigh e 'n t-each ab* aigeaniiaicli/
Ki gabhal an ra-treuta,
'Nuair dh-eirich do chabar ort !