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OSSIAN TRADITIONS, WRITINGS, ETC. 63
Tliat love which is given unknown,
Since it's my wonted
Garden for lays {light-ray in rhyming)
Unless I plant passion betimes,
my flower will be
blighted and thin.
That man to whom love is given,
and must not be told
from on high {out aloud)
For him was I put into pain.
Heigh ho ! for me (" gijrnV)
'Tis a hundred woes,
woes.
Tlie rhythm indicates the division, and so do the
assonances.
Mairg dha 'n galar an GEADH
Ohìtìifath
fa'n abrain e
Deacair sgarachdain r' a PHAIET
truagh an cds
's a bheileam fhein.
Several lines contain words whose sound, now-a-
days, would admit of a double or treble meaning, and
some of these might be distorted by one who was led
to expect something wrong, but there is no coarseness
in this quaint little clitty ; and if this be 'all her
poetical sin, the poor lady's character has been sadly
maligned.
This class is amorous, moral and satirical, not
Ossianic poetry ; but if the nobility of those days

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Volume 4
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All 4 volumes - Popular tales of the West Highlands
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