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Sh'c Bards. 757
Rinn lamhach fir Lunuinn is cabhlach ar luini^is
Bonipart chuir an ciinnart ged a dh' fhuilig e stri,
Xeart laidir ar gillean anns iiach tarmaicheadh giorag,
'S nach saruicheadh fionnachd fo shileadh na' speur ;
Rachadh dana ri teine, anns na blaraibh bu mhinig,
Buaidh larach bu trie leibh, s' i 'g iomain nan treud,
'S chaidh Paris a bhristeadh le stairn bhur cuid phiostal,
'S ghabh Spainntich, is Pruisich, is Turcaich ratreut.
Gun do dh' isHch sibh Boni, cho ard 's ga ro' choilear
Le ailleachd, le 'ollachd, le 'chonas, le 'shannt
Thuit bearna na dhorus, 'n uair a dh' fhailig am balla,
Chaidh a ghraine ri talamh anns a charachd a bli' ann,
Cha robh sta na chuid chanan, chaidh a phartuidh a
mearachd
Rinn danadas cearrail a chuid fearainn a chall,
Chaidh Paris a glacadh, le h-earnais, le h-acfhuinn
'S tha Spainn air a creachadh, 's' cha ro chasgairt ud fann.
Tha 'n Impir Napoileon air dibreadh dha aindeoin
Ge bu rioghal a thalla cha do dh' fhan e na ceann,
Chaidh a shinnteag a m nllead, chaidh a phrisin an
tainnead,
'S chaidh dibreadh air onair ge b" oil leis a call ;
Cha do thoill e cus molaidh, si 'n fhoill a rinn cron da,
Chaidh oighreachd a dholaidh gun chorum da chlann,
'S tha broinn a chuid sporan 'n diugh gun doimean gun
dolar
'S thuit an oidhch' air sa mhonadh 's gun a sholus ach
gann.
Gach maighdeann is caileag is deir air am malaibh
Bho mheall thu 'n cuid leannan a dh' aindeoin am bonn ,
Gach og-bhean is sean-bhean a reubadh am beawnag
Bho sheol an cuid feara bho calla nan long ;
Gach sean-bhean 's torrach,'s leat fuighleach a mallachd,
Thug thu'n coimh-leapaich shona bho'm broillichean trom
'S gach mathair is muime, le'n gasaidin duilich,
Sgeul bais an cuid luran, fuar, fionnar, 'san torn.
RODERICK CAMPBELL.
Ruairidh Alac Cha!um ]\Ihic an t-Saoir, Roderick
Campbell, was a tailor and crofter in Colbost. He might
be styled a hymnologist. At any rate his best known composition
is the elegy he composed on that eminent man,
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