The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

758 1 he Highland Monthly.
Malcolm Macinnes (Galium Mac Aonghais), carpenter,
Glendale. It consists of sixteen verses, but space can be
given only to three verses as specimens :
—
Moch 'sa mhaduinn Di-haoine
'S goirt a' ghaoir a chaidh 'nar c'uasan,
Cha b'e naigheachd na faoineas
A' chaidh innse 's an uair dhuinn,
Gu'n robh Calum a' dhith oirnn,
Ceann-iuil dileas nan truaghan,
'S iomadh fear a' bha gun dinneir
'Snidhe 'chinn air a ghruaidhean.
Mo run geal og, &c.
A luchd-aitich ar glinne,
A luchd a' mhire 's an t-sugraidh,
A luchd briscadh na Sabaid
A luchd na meirle 's na cul-chaint,
A luchd na mionnan 's nam breugan
Na mi-bheusachd 's droch ghiulan,
Bu trie bhur cuideam 'ga fhasgadh
Aig Cathair grais air a ghluinean.
Mo run geal og.
'S e do ghnuis a' bhiodh taitneach
Nuair a' ghlacadh tu 'm Biobul,
Suilean t-anam a' faicinn
Gloir agus maise an Fhir-shaoraidh ;
Uile bhuadhan na diadhachd
B'e do mhiann bhi ga 'n innse',
'Nuair a bhiodh tu co-dhunadh
Co nach duraichdeadh gaol duit.
Mo run geal og.
HYMNS BY JOHN MORRISON.
The following note in Reid was all I could gather about
John Morrison :— " Dain spioradail le Eoin Morrison o'n
Eilein Sgiathanach. Glasgow: Published by Maurice Ogle,
1828, A. Young, printer; i2mo, 6d." The above was the
production of a blind man ; they were copied from his
mouth by a schoolmaster in the Highlands, and sent to
Glasgow under the auspices of the Rev. D. Ranken, South
Knapdale, and the Rev. Dr Macleod of Campsie, but the