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TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [ Vou. III. 
’Se Coire cheathaich nan aighean siubhlach 
An Coire runach a’s urar fonn, 
Gu lurach, miad-fheurach, min-gheal sughar, 
Gach lusan fluar bu chubhraidh leam. 
In addition to concord, and to the recurrence of the same sounds, there 
is in those verses what Zeuss designates Consonantia Contraposita, or a 
correspondence between the last words of the Hemistichs. In his poem 
in praise of the Caledonian Society of Toronto, Evan MacColl furnishes 
beautiful examples of the same correspondence. The stanza which he 
has adopted is the same as that of Cozre-cheathaich. We had added, 
however, one metre or two feet to each verse. The poem is throughout 
very able, and reflects great honour on the author. The correspondence 
between the Hemistichs in such verses as these is very beautiful, e. g:: 
Cha-n eol domh toil-inntinn is mo na bhi’ cluinntinn, 
Piob mhor nan dos cnaimh-gheal is fonnmhoire fuaim; 
Nuair theid i gu comhradh air faiche no’n seomar, 
B’e’n Ceol thar gach Ceol leam a torman’ nam chluais. 
Though the Greek tragedians made frequent use of Anapaestic metre, 
no metre of that kind was employed by the Latin poets of the Augustan 
age. 
Venient annis saecula seris 
Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum 
Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus 
Tethysque novos delegat orbes 
Nec sit terris ultima Thule. 
These verses which occur in the Medea of Seneca and which have been 
regarded as prophetic of the discovery of America, furnish one of the 
best examples that can be adduced of the adaptation to Latin verse of the 
Anapaestic Dimeter Acatalectic. Lochzel’s Warning by Campbell, and 
The Destruction of Sennacherib by Byron are excellent specimens of the 
application of the same metre to English verse. Having the same form of 
scansion by accent, as English verse and the Gaelic adaptations of Ana- 
paestic verse have, it was beforehand to be expected that Gaelic Ana- 
paests would not be and ought not to be inferior to English Anapaests 
in musical rhythm and faithfulness. The English and Gaelic version of 
his Ealatdh Ghaoil by the celebrated Gaelic scholar, Ewen MacLachlan, 
must command the admiration of every student of poetry : so faultless is 
the accuracy and so harmonious in both languages are the numbers of 
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