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CATH-LAMHA.
Air fleibhte nan earba ciara
Do cheum cha robh riabh air deire.
Duifg, is a ghrian ag eiridh ;
Duifg, is na h eildean a' mofgla ;
Crath, ighean Dhumoir do chiabhan,
Gu feilg nan fliabh bidh ar n imeachd.
— Och I tha 'n oigh air ionndrain !"
Mar fhead na gaoithe gu cluais Dhumoir,
Thainig guth nan oighean brònach j
Bu tuirfeach Dumor fan lò fin,
Ach bu tuirfich' gu mòr Ronan.
Chruinnich an ath-òiche na clò,
Chunnacas mar cheo an tràigh ;
Gu tofdach tiamhaidh fhuair finn an cala,
'S an òiche.gar falach na dui'bhrat.
Doilleir gun f hafga bho fnin ^
Bha ar cor fan tir chein,
Bha foliris na hòich' air uairibh
Ag amharc triiaillidh ro chirbe neul.
Bu dòbhidh an dreach dearg ;
'S bu toic fgalartaich ar con ;
Chluinnte cuideachd taibhfe tiamhaidU
Ag amharG ro chiar-cheo na h òiclie.
Shuidh Ronan air lie dhòinich,
'S a fgia air geig chòfaich thairis,
(Chluinnte na hiallaibh fead na gaoithe)
'S mife r'a thaobh le * dan Athar ;
Athar,
* It was pStt of the office of -the Bardf thus to compofe
the foul of their Chief x.o fleep, by their harp and midnight
fong;
When fleep was coy, the Bards in waiting there,
Cheer'd the lone midnight with the mufe's lore;
Compofing mufic, bade his dreams be fair.
And mufic lends new gladnefs to the morning air.
Cajih iflndohnce.
P)'thagoras applied raufic to the fame purpofe; " Pytha-
goras ut animum fuum femper divinitate imbueret, priuf-
quam fe femno daret, et cum eflet expergitus cantare con-
fueverat : — perturbationcs animi lyrl componebat."
Jambl. vit. Pyth. &c.
The mufic of the harp, when well played, was beUeved,
like David's lyre, to be powerful enough to charm the evit
fpirit himfelf. So fays even a Bifliop f Grofthead.)
Next hys chamber, befyde his ftudy ;
Hys harper's chamber was fiiil by :
The virtue of the harp, through (T<ill and right,
Will deftr)-e thefend^i migl*.