thanks Keberoxu

incidently, the publisher's forename "Eneas" is more the way I have heard Aonghus pronounced by Scottish Gaelic speakers, rather than "Angus" "Fo Laimh Chalum Mhic Pharlain" means from the hand of Calum Mac Pharlain.

I think Murdoch MacLean's poem and MacColm McFarland (Calum Mac Pharlain)Gaelic language version deserve to be published together in the same discussion, and of course MacLean's poem is pertinent to the subject of this thread. So I have copied it from your Sleep Weel My Bairnie (Murdoch MacLean) discussion:

LAMENT FOR EDITH CAVELL

by Murdoch Maclean

Winds of the dawning, low by her grave
Sigh for the fallen, fearless and brave;
Out in the greyness, lonely and dread,
Waves of the ocean sob for the dead.

Honour and Freedom fled in the night,
Thou wert their glory, thine was their light;
Rest to the faithful -- rest till the day,
Tears of a nation hallow thy clay.

Fainting they bound thee pale in the morn,
Martyr'd the laid thee bleeding and torn,
Calmly unyielding, steadfast and tried
All for thy country guiltless thou died.

Proudly thy story ages shall trace
Martyr of Belgium born of our race --
Wrapt in thy slumber rest till the day,
Tears of a nation hallow thy clay!

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the first verses of the Gaelic and English are similar in content. I wonder where MacFarlane got Herod and Nero into his second verse. I prefer MacFarlane's last verse - my quick summation would be: may you rest in peace, let your death be a lesson for freedom

EIDEAG CHAITHBHÉIL (Edith Cavell)

Fann ghaoth na mochthrath ri osnaidhean bròin;
Fairge fo uamhunn, is gruaim air na neòil;
Saorsa, le heagal, air teicheadh gu còs,
'S Eideag Chaithbhéil 'si 'na beuban gun deò.

Gníomh na minaire thug bàrr a thaobh tnùth
Air Herod 's air Néro le'n reubairean gnùth,
Mort na mna mìn thaobh a dìlse 'nar cùis.
Dhaibhsan thig dìoghladh, ach dhìthse thig cliù.

Dìoghlar e mìghnìomh nam mìstearan thall:
Chì sinn ma's beò, gur i chòir a bhios ann;
'S theid cliù na banghaisgich, o dheachdadh peann,
Sìos feadh nan linn gus an crìochnaichear àm.

Sèimh biodh do chadal, a bhanoglach chaomh;
Leigheas nan creuchd b'e do dhreuchd air an tsaogh'l;
'Sluachmhoire t' éifeachd do chreutairean daor,
Ma theagaisg do mhort daibh gur sochair an tsaors'.