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Nach tugamaid cis ho cdin 

 Ach gu faga iad cinn re lar :" 



" Cha tabhair mise mo bheau 

 Do aon f hear a ta fui an ghrein 

 Cha mho thuibhram Bran lem dheoin 

 An f headh bhios an deo' nam chre'." 



The story is told in the Society's originals thus : 



" Gabh sith o Shuaran,* 's thoir cis ; 

 Thuirt gaisgeach nach min glor 

 Gabh sith a bheirear do righre, 

 'Nuair thuiteas an stri na sloigh. 

 Fag Eirinn nan sruth 's nan raon : 

 Do bhean, is cu caol an fheidh 

 Braf gheal uchd-aluinn is caoin, 

 Luath, a dh' f hagus a' ghaoth 'na dheigh, 

 Tairg sin ; oir is lag do lamh, 

 Gabh smachd; nabi dan 's bi beo. 



Inis do Shuaran naii sgialh, 

 Cha do gheill me riamh, 'scho gheill, 

 Bheiream an cuan dha 'n triath, 

 No uaigh dha shloigh an Eirinn, 

 An la sin cha do thig gu brath 

 Bheir dearrsa mo ghradh gu tuath 

 'Scho teich, an Lochlin nan cam, 

 Ard-chabrach na seilg o Luath." 



We have given these two different versions of the story, that the 

 reader may see what reUance is to be placed upon the words of the 

 Society, through their mouth-piece, Sir John Sinclair, when he 

 declares in his " Dissertation," p. 76, that in Doctor Smith's Cento 



• It is remarkable that the name Suaran or Swaran is never once mentioned in Doctor 

 Smith's Cento. That was a name invented by Mr. Macpherson, and given by him to any 

 hero of the Irish Ossian that he had a mind to steal, as we have seen before he did to Garbh 

 or Garraidh, Mac Stam, and now to J\fanui mor. 



