4 NETHER LOCHABER. 



agreeably to it, lie himself came forward and received her with 

 the following beautiful address." We present our readers with the 

 original lines verbatim et literatim, precisely as they stand in the 

 MS., only omitting two lines that are partly illegible from their 

 falling into the sharp foldings of the sheet. The sense and tenor 

 of these lines, however, we have ventured to guess at and to 

 incorporate with our English version : 



BEANNACHADH BAIRD. 



Mile fkilte dhuit le 'd bhreid, 



Fad' a re gu'n robh thu slan, 



Moran laithean dhuit as slth, 



Le d' mhaitheas as le d' n\ 'bhith fas. 



A chulaidh cheiteas a chaidh suas. 



'S trie a thairin buaidh air mnaoi 



Bithse gu suilceach, ceiteach, 



O thionnseain thu fhein 'san treubh. 



An tus do choiruith 's tu 6g, 



An tus gach 16 iarr High nan Dul ; 



Cha'n' eagal nach dean e gu ceart 



Gach dearbh-bheachd a bhios 'nad run, 



Bithsa fialuidh ach bith glic. 



Bith misneachail ach bith stolt. 



Na bith brith'nach, 's na bith balbh, 



Na bith mear na marbh 's tu 6g ; 



Bith gleidhteach air do dhea ainm, 



Ach na bith duinte 's na bith fuar ; 



Na labhair fbs air neach gu olc, 



'S ged labhras ort, na taisbean fuath. 



Na bith gearannach fo chrois, 



Falbh socair le cupan Ian ; 



Chaoidh dh' an olc na tabhair speis 



As le 'd bhreid ort, mile failt ! 



Whether with the sense of the above we have succeeded in 

 catching anything of its quaint beauty and tenderness in the 

 following lines, is for the reader to judge : 



