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ALEXANDER MACDONALD. 13
With a mighty grasp and manful ;
Stretch your bones and stretch your sinews ;
Leave her track in light behind you,
Stepping proudly.
Leave her track, &c.
Give a gleesome bout and lively ;
Stoutly rousing one another,
With this dainty boat-song chanted
By your fore-oar.
With this dainty boat-song, &c.
Raise the foam-bells round the tholepins,
Till your hands are bare and blister' d.
And the oars themselves are twisted
In the strong waves.
And the oars themselves, &c.
Let your brows be hotly lighted ;
Heed not should your palms get skinless.
And the huge drops from your forehead
Fast be falling.
And the huge drops, &c.
Bend, and stretch, and draw, young gallants,
Your shafts of fir, in hue light grey;
And pass with heed the wild rough currents
"Whirling briny.
And pass with heed, &c.
Let your set of oars, full sweeping.
Mash the gTeat sea with their vigour.
Going splashing in the wild face
Of the billows.
Going splashing, &c.
Row together, clean and steady,
Cleaving the great swelling water.
With a mighty grasp and manful ;
Stretch your bones and stretch your sinews ;
Leave her track in light behind you,
Stepping proudly.
Leave her track, &c.
Give a gleesome bout and lively ;
Stoutly rousing one another,
With this dainty boat-song chanted
By your fore-oar.
With this dainty boat-song, &c.
Raise the foam-bells round the tholepins,
Till your hands are bare and blister' d.
And the oars themselves are twisted
In the strong waves.
And the oars themselves, &c.
Let your brows be hotly lighted ;
Heed not should your palms get skinless.
And the huge drops from your forehead
Fast be falling.
And the huge drops, &c.
Bend, and stretch, and draw, young gallants,
Your shafts of fir, in hue light grey;
And pass with heed the wild rough currents
"Whirling briny.
And pass with heed, &c.
Let your set of oars, full sweeping.
Mash the gTeat sea with their vigour.
Going splashing in the wild face
Of the billows.
Going splashing, &c.
Row together, clean and steady,
Cleaving the great swelling water.
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Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Selections from the Gaelic bards > (37) |
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Description | Selected 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. |
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Description | Selected 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. |
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