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ALEXANDER MACDONALD. 13
With a mighty grasp and manful;
Stretch your bones and stretch your sinews;
Leave her track in light behind you,
Stepping proudly.
Leave her track, &c.
Give a gleesome bout and lively ;
Stoutly rousing one another,
With this dainty boat-song chanted
By your fore-oar.
With this dainty boat-song, &c.
Raise the foam-bells round the tholepins.
Till your hands are bare and bhster'd.
And the oars themselves are twisted
In the strong waves.
And the oars themselves, &c.
Let your brows be hotly lighted;
Heed not should your palms get skinless,
And the huge drops from your forehead
Fast be falling.
And the huge drops, &g.
Bend, and stretch, and draw, young gallants.
Your shafts of fir, in hue light grey;
And pass with heed the wild rough currents
Whirling briny.
And pass with heed, &c.
Let your set of oars, full sweeping,
Mash the great sea with their vigour,
Going splashing in the wild face
Of the billows.
Going splashing, &c.
Row together, clean and steady,
Cleaving the gi-eat swelUng water.
With a mighty grasp and manful;
Stretch your bones and stretch your sinews;
Leave her track in light behind you,
Stepping proudly.
Leave her track, &c.
Give a gleesome bout and lively ;
Stoutly rousing one another,
With this dainty boat-song chanted
By your fore-oar.
With this dainty boat-song, &c.
Raise the foam-bells round the tholepins.
Till your hands are bare and bhster'd.
And the oars themselves are twisted
In the strong waves.
And the oars themselves, &c.
Let your brows be hotly lighted;
Heed not should your palms get skinless,
And the huge drops from your forehead
Fast be falling.
And the huge drops, &g.
Bend, and stretch, and draw, young gallants.
Your shafts of fir, in hue light grey;
And pass with heed the wild rough currents
Whirling briny.
And pass with heed, &c.
Let your set of oars, full sweeping,
Mash the great sea with their vigour,
Going splashing in the wild face
Of the billows.
Going splashing, &c.
Row together, clean and steady,
Cleaving the gi-eat swelUng water.
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Description | Volumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection. |
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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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