Carmina Gadelica, Volume 1, by Alexander Carmicheal, [1900], at sacred-texts.com
THE old man from whom this piece was taken down said that in his boyhood innumerable hymns and fragments of hymns of this nature were common throughout the isles of p. 43 Barra. When strangers began to come in they derided the old people and their old lore and their old ways, and the younger generations neglected the ways of their fathers, alike the questionably and the unquestionably good.
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AIR Carraig nan al, Sith Athar an aigh, |
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ON the Rock of rocks, The peace of the Father of joy, |