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DAN AN DEIRG.
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'S mall, mar na cnuic air 'n do leuni,
A chas a chuir eilde gu ftad 1.
Is b' ann£.i Dearg feacli neach fu 'n ghrèin o I
Seach m' athair deurach, 's momhathairchaomh-i
Tha 'n full ri lear.gu trie 's an èigheach,
Acli b' annla-leaniia dol eug le m'ghaol.
* Is lean mi 'n coin thar nuiir is glinn thii,
'S luidhinn sinte leat Ian t-Uochd ;
* This idea of two lovers being infeparable in life and
death, is beautifully illuftraled in the following epitaph, by
Boetius Torquatus, phyfician to Theodoric the Goth, in the
&th ccnturj'.
Elpis diaa fui, SiculaE:regIonis alumna,
Quam procul a patria, Conjugis egit amor j
Quo fine, maefta^dies, nox flebilis, anxia hora* ,
Nee folum caro, fed fpiritus uniis erat.
iux- mea non claufa, tali remanente m^rito,
Majorique animse parte fuperftes ero ;
Porticibus facrls jam nunc peregrine quiefco,
jEterni judicis teftificata thronum.
Ne qua manusbuftum violet, nifi forte jugalis
Hac iterum cupiat jungere membra fuis :
Ut thalami, cumulique comes, nee morte revellnr, .
Zt focios v;»3e ne£lat uterque cinis.
O thigeadh bus no tore dom reuba',
Neo 's truagh mo ehiira' fein a noehd;
Is^rinneadh leaba dhuinn an raoir^
Air an raon ud cbnoc nan lealg ;
'S ni 'n deantar leab' air leth a liochd dhuinn,
'S ni 'n Igarar mo ehorp o Dhearg.
* Tuirlibh, O thaibhfe nan niids,
O ionadaibh fial nam flath ;
Tuirlibh air ghlas-fgiathaibh ur ceo,.
Is glacaibh mo dheo gun àtha.
Oighean tha 'n tallaibh an Trein,-
neilbhibh ceo-eide' Chrimine ;
Ach 's annfa learn fgiobul mo Dheirg ;,
Ad.fgiobuls', a Dheirg, biom 1
Is mhothaich fmn ga treigfinn a guth,
Mhothaich fmn gun lugh' a meoir j
Thog
*The two following ftanzas are omitted in the tranflation
given of this poem, (Gaelic antiq. ) Some other fmall varia-
tions have arifen from a more accurate' comparifon of difFc»
rent editions ; fome of which have been procured fmce the
tranflation was publidied.