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FERTHSHIHE ELECTION.
Gaelic Song.
Air Fonn.—il Blythe, Blythe, and merry was she.'*
Naas an hotul mor, 's an copan,
Slaint an High theid grad mo 'n cuairt—
Buaidh le Grey, le Brough'm's le Althorp,
Mhxnistearan ard a chruin.
1. On thuaradh dhuinn a mach ’n c Beform^
Biodh mid Righail, dileas, dluth,
Mar chlann nan Gael an guaillaibh clieil,
Ri carid no namh nach tionnda cul.
Nuas an hotul mor 's an copan,
Slaint an Righ theid grad mo 'n cuairt—
Buaidh le mor-jhear mor Ghlinn Urchaidh
Carid trein an tsluaigh 's gach cuis. *
2. Cliaidh Gael gasda,’s Gall mo ’n cuairt,
Tre Shiorrachd Pheart a dian chuir stri
A dhfheuch co roighnaichadh an sluagh,
A thagradh "n cuis an Cuirt na riogh’chd.
13. Na ’n faodadh leis a Ghall ’sa chuirt
Cha bhiodh gach cuis an diugh mar tha
Cha bhiodh taghgdh aig aon do’n tuagh
(red phaidhar leo na ceudan mail.
4. Co ris a dh’earbar leinn an long
Ach riusadh dhealbh an long ’s an stiuir,
A ghleachd ri beuchdaich gharbh nan tonn
’Scairt maraich dhoibh mar lochran iuil.
5. Ach comhairl bheirinn air an tuagh,
Clio maith ri Uaislean mor na tir—
Na treigar leibhs’ an trath s’ an Gael,
’Sgu brath cha treig an Gael ud sibh.
* Ri bhi air aithris an deigh gach ranm
The following translation of the above is appended
for the edification of Southron Anti-Reformers :—
1st Chorus.—Bringthelargebottle and cup, the King’s
health shall quickly go round—Success to Grey, to
Brougham, and Althorp, high Ministers of the Crown.
Terse 1st.—Because they brought us out Reform,
let’s be loyal, true, and firm, like Highlanders, shoulder
to shoulder, who turn not their backs on friend or foe.
2nd Chorus.—Bring the large bottle and cup, the
King’s healtli shall quickly go round,—Success to
great Lord Glenorchy, the powerful assertor of the
people’s cause.
Terse 2nd An excellent Cl gasda” (this gaelic word
comprehends almost every kind of praise) Highlander
and a low-country Man are canvassing the Shire of
Perth, to try to which of them the people will entrust
their cause in the National Court.
Terse 3d.—If the low-country Man had obtained
his desire, matters would not be as they happily
are; no tenant would have a vote though he paid
hundreds of rent.
Terse 4th—To whom should we confide the man¬
agement of the helm, but to those who constructed the
ship, and guided it through the buffetings of the storm ?
Terse 5th.-—But one advice I would give the tenant
as well as the laird:—Do not now forsake the Reformer,
and he shall never forsake you.
LUINNEAG.