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Innis a leac do na blia'nai mall
Tha thall air chùl'aobh na greinc
* 'S nach cluinn guth na maidne gu cian,
Leis fo gu d' iarradh sith na Feinne.
A leac na sith aig fruthaibh mora,
Cuire' taibhs' is còineach dion ort,
Na deana' nàmh, no doinionn, no fruth,
Am feadh amhaireas Mor-fhruth,do dhiobhail f ."
Chaitheadh an òiche ri cuilm is ceol
Is dh' imich air madain lloigh J nan Druidh ;
Sheinn gach filidh caithream broin
'S cha robh cloir nam Morbheann fàmhach.
Bu
■" 'S do 'n tfiol nach eirich gu cian.
-j- At the end of Dan Liughair is generally repeated the
following ftanza, fuppofed to have been the approbation gi-
ven it by fome Culdee or " Son of the rock," to whom it
was firft addreffed.
Mile beannachd dhuit gach rè,
Oifein f heilidh is binne gloir ;
Arfon aon fgeoii co maith blagh
'S a dh' airis thu riabh ri d' bheo.
t a!. Chuinn.

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Sean dana
Description" ... le Oisian, Orran, Ulann, &c. Ancient poems of Ossian Orran Ullin &c. Collected in the western Highlands and Isles being the originals of the translations some time ago published in the Gaelic antiquities. By John Smith, D.D. Minister of the Gospel at Campbelton." A collection of Gaelic poems, edited by Smith.
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Ossian Collection
DescriptionSelected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.
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.