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' British Ass' has received the imprimatur of the great Association for which it was written. . . There is no march so delights the Scottish Brigade of the British Army as ' Ai^ns O Mhorag !' But the triumph of his verse is the exquisite — ' . My heart is yearning' for thee, O Skye ! Dearest of islands !' Which breathes throughout the sweet pure air of the Coolins by the sea. I would give a good deal to have written that song — 10 have been capable of 3l8 SOME REMINISCENCES writing it. Many a t...ime I have felt my eyes grow dim as he sang it ; and the last time not less than the first. It is indeed a very scanty wreath we are able to lay on his grave, but this one rich blossom will perfume all the rest. " Nicholson studied for the Church, but soon gave up theology, thinking — in his own words — '* the uniform of the esteemed Free Church, of which I am a member, too strait for me. '' And, thanks very much to the teaching of this same strait-laced Church, Pipe music in Skye in the seventies — I talk of last century — was a negligible quantity, and.
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