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36 DAN an DEIRG.
Ach anmoch chaidh, * tual an car.
'S ma threig thu mi, fholuis m' àigh !
Tha mi gu là bhràth gun ghean ;
Och ! mur eirich Dearg o phràmh,
Is dui'-neul gu bràth a bhean.
'S duaichni' do dhreach ; fuar do chridh,
Gun fpionn' ad laimh no cli ad chois !
Och 's balbh do bheul a bha binn ;
Och 's tinn learn a ghraidh do chor !
Nis chaochail rugha do ghruaidh,
Fhir nam mor-bhuadh anns gach cath ;
'Small,
kingdoms were annexed to it. According to two ancient
fragments of Scottim hiilory publimed in the appendix to
Innes's Critical Eflay, " Fergus the fon of Ere reigned over
Albany, from Drttmqlbin to the fea of Ireland and Innfegall
(or Hebrides.)" The fea of Ireland is a boundary well
known ; and by Drumalbin is meant, according to the befl
antiquaries, thofe high nvuntains which run all the way from
Lochlomond, near Dunbarton, to the frith of Taine, which
feparates the county of Sutherland from a part of Rofs.
* Car tual (tua' iul) " unprofperous or fatal courfe," is
an allufion to the Druidical cufloms of going three times
round their circles and cairns. The Deis iu/, or " turning
to the South" in the fame courfe with the fun, was reckoned
lucky ; the reverfe (or car tual) unlucky.