Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Orain agus dana Gaidhealach = Songs and poems, in Gaelic

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Le flathan faille, a labhair reusan
A ghleidheadh st^idh na cbracli;
Fhuair gach bighre an ni, ’san staoile,
An skibhreas, ’san cuid stbrais.
Thkinig cbir, a’s dh’fhalbh an eu-cbir
A’s Team ar cr\dh’ le sblas,
Tha uaislean treun ’san uair so fein,
Gu h-uallach eutrom, ceblmhor:
Tha ’n tuath ri s&deadh suas tein’-eibhinn
Air na sldibhtean mbra :
So a’ bhliadhna chrim an r&te,
Sin an sgeul tha cbmhdaicht’.*
ORAN A’ BHOTAIL.
air FONN.—“ Cia mar is urrainn sinn fuireach
on dram ?”f
’Nuair a shuidheas sinn socrach
• ’Sa dh-blas sinn botal,
Cha n-aithnich ar stoe uainn,
Na chuireas sinn ann ;
Thig onoir a’s fortan
Le sonas a’ chopain,
C’arson nach bi deoch oirnn,
Mu’n tog sinn ar ceann ?
The forfeited estates were not restored till January 1784, and
were finally settled in January 1785.
t For the Tune of this Song see Captain Fraser’s Collection
of “Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland,”
page 31, No. 61. The Captain writes, in a note to this piece of
music, that he “ has great pleasure in asserting his country's
claims to this melodv, lately introduced as Irish, under the name
of the ‘ Legacy,’ and supposed new; whereas it has been current
in the Norm for sixty years, as the composition of John Mac Murdo
(or M(Rae) of Kintail, since emigrated to America.