The Dean of Lismores book a Selection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry From a Manuscri
The Dean of Lismores book a Selection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry From a Manuscri
Thomas Maclauchlan
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The author of this is Gilchiist Taylor. - Bless, Trinity, thy household. King of heaven, place of jewels ; ' The fragments of Ossianic or Fenian big, from Lenno. K or Dumbartonshire, poetrj' in the miscellany of Dean Mac- might be a man of some note in his day, gregor are now exhausted. They afford but time has obliterated all knowledge some idea of the amount of such poetry of him. His composition is of a class in the Highlands at the time he lived. Well kno\\'n in his day, and highly popu- We... now proceed with those pieces which lar, bemg aphoristic. Several coniposi- profess to be of a more recent date. Tions, consisting of a series of aphorisms, These will be found to consist chiefly of will be found in the sequel, compositions of the fourteenth and fif- - There are several pieces by this poet teenth centuries. The first short compo- in the Dean's MS. , but we know nothing sition here given is one by a poet hitherto of his history. He was probably an eccle- unknowTi to modern fame.
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