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25 Aug 20 - 08:52 PM (#4069639) Subject: Lyr Add: Landlord's Walk, Blair Douglas From: RunrigFan An t-earrach so agus so chaidh 's gath fichead earrach bho 'n an tùs tharruing ise 'h fheamainn fhuar chum biadh a cloinne's duais an tùir This Spring and last spring and every twenty Springs from the beginning she has carried the cold seaweed for her children's food and the castle's reward 'S gach fichead foghar tha air triall chaill i samhradh buidh nam blàth is threabh an dubh-chosnadh an clais tarsuinnn mìnead ghil a clàir and every twenty Autumn's gone she has lost the golden summer of her bloom and the Black Labour has ploughed the furrow across the white smoothness of her forehead from Summer In Skye Extract from Ban-Ghàidheal (A Highland Woman) by Somhairle MacLean |