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Piano.
Sino tbe praisee o' m^ bearie.
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Translated from the Gaelic of " Fionn," by
Malcolm MaoFarlane, Elderslie.
Air : " Slan gu'n till na Gaidheil ghasda.'
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* From the' f'e^iic /.?/?•£, by kind permission. The ori;;inal Gaelic verses to tliis air belong to the ITtli century. "We
Mr. MacFarlane's translation of a new Gaelic song by Mr. Henry Whyte, entitled " A' mhaighdeau aluinn."
have here adopted