144 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. | Von. II. 
Ach mun tig an saoghal gu crioch, 
Bithidh I mar a bha. 
O sacred dome and my beloved abode! 
Whose walls now echo to the praise of God ; 
The time shall come when lauding monks shall cease, 
And howling herds here occupy their place. 
But better ages shall hereafter come, 
And praise re-echo in the sacred dome. 
Tradition has it that forty-eight Scottish kings, four Irish monarchs 
and eight Norwegian princes were interred in Iona, and that so marked 
a preference for Iona as a place of interment was the result of this 
prophecy of Columba. 
Seachd bliadhna roimh ’n bhrath, 
Thig muir, thar Eirinn re aon trath ; 
’5 thar Ile ghuirm ghlais, 
Ach snamhaidh I Cholum clairich. 
Seven years before that awful day 
When time shall be no more, 
A watery deluge shall o’ersweep, 
Hibernia’s mossy shore. 
The green clad Islay too shall sink, 
Whilst with the great and good, 
Columba’s happy isle shall rear 
Her towers above the flood. 
