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1G2 Gaelic Society of Inuerness.
'Nu.iir a shaoil mi tighinn thngam a bhairlinn,
Bin ga in' thudauadh ghnatli hhav mo bhonn,
'Righ phriseil mur a gabli tliu fein truas rium,
Tha do laimh ami sai) iiair' orm gle throm.
The following sacred poem was composed by the famous
Juliet of Keppoch, (Sile na Ceapaich). A fragment of it appears
in Vol. vii. of the Transactions of this Society. The following
\ersion was transcribed by the late lamented D. C. Macpherson
of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, from a copy which Iain
Dan Innse took down from an old servant of Sile. Sile was born
at Bohuntin, Brae-Lochaber, in 1660, and died in the year 1729.
Di do bheath', a Mhoire Mhaighdeann,
'S gnr gile do Mhac na 'ghrian ;
Rugadh am INIac 'an aois Athar,
Oighre Fhlathanais ga'r dion.
B' iosal an ceum thug an Slanair,
Tighinn a Parras gu talamh ;
Eugadh e ann an staball,
Gun tuilleadh aite dha falamh.
Cha d'iarr Banrainn na h-umhlachd,
Fuirneiseachd, rum, no seoniar ;
Cha mho 'dh iarr i mnathan-glaine,
Ach Righ nan Dul a bhi ga comhnadh.
Cha d' iarr Miccin na h-uaisle,
Cuisein, no clusag, no leaba,
Acli gu'n d' eirich leis a IMhathair,
Ga' chur sa' mhaingeir na laidhe.
B' aobhainn an sealladh a fhuair i
An uair a tliainig e as a collainn ;
Ga 'shuaineadh 'an anartan bana
An Slanair a thainig gu'r ceannach,
Shoillsich reulna anns an athar
'Rinn rathad do na tri righrean;
Thainig iad ga shealltaijni le failte,
'S gaol 'us gradh thoirt da le lirinn.
Thainig na buachaillean bochda,
'Ghabhail fradhairc air 's an tim sin
Misneach do'n lag 's do'n laidir,
Gu 'bhi cho dana air an ti ud.
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