200. Mother's Consecration. Coistrig Mathar
COISTRIG MATHAR [200] | MOTHER'S CONSECRATION |
THE following lines are whispered by mothers into the ears of sons and daughters when leaving their homes in the Outer Isles for the towns of the south and for foreign lands. p. 171 Probably they are the last accents of the mother's voice--heard in the far-away home among the hills clothed with mist or on the machair washed by the sea--that linger on the Gaelic ear as it sinks in the sleep that knows no waking.
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| AN Dia mor bhi eadar do dha shlinnein, |
| BE the great God between thy two shoulders, |
