Lyr Add: An Ubhal As Airde

Subject: Lyr Add: An Ubhal As Airde
From: RunrigFan
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 06:29 PM

Còmhla rium
A tha thu an dràsd
Mo shuilean duinte, mo chuimhne dàn
Nam sheasamh a' coimhead
Gach cnoc is gach tràigh
Is an sìol a dh' fhàg thu ann a' fàs


Tha an gàrradh làn
Le craobhan treun
Le meas a' fàs dhuinn ann ri bhuain
Ubhlan abaich
Milis geur
Ach tha aon ubhal nach ruig sinn idir air


Seididh gaoth is dearrsaidh grian
Tro mheas nan craobhan linn gu linn
Ach thig an là is thig an t-àm
Airson an ubhal as àirde
Air a' chraobh a' bhuain


Is cò 'nar measg
A mhaireas là
Seachad air àm is air oidhche fhèin
A' liuthad uair
A shreap mi suas
Airson an ubhal as àirde chur gu beul


Seididh gaoth is dearrsaidh grian
Tro mheas nan craobhan linn gu linn
Ach thig an là is thig an t-àm
Airson an ubhal as àirde
Air a' chraobh a' bhuain

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: An Ubhal As Airde
From: RunrigFan
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 06:30 PM

At present

All you were is with me

My eyes closed, my memory confident

Standing here watching

Each hill and shoreline

With the seed you left

Still growing


The garden is well stocked

With mighty trees

With fruit growing for the whole world

Ripe, sweet

And bitter apples

And the one apple

That is beyond reach


The winds will blow

And the sun will shine

From generation to generation

Through the trees of the garden

But the day and the hour

Will surely come

To take the highest apple

From the knowledge tree


Who amongst us

Can exist a single day

Beyond our own time and our own limits

Countless and futile

Are times I've climbed

To reach and taste

The forbidden fruit


The winds will blow

And the sun will shine

From generation to generation

Through the trees of the garden

But the day and the hour

Will surely come

To take the highest apple

From the knowledge tree

(C) C. Macdonald (Calum Macdonald)