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Da Oran Airson Ceilidh Uir	Two Songs For A New Ceilidh
Nuair a thug i 'n cuan mòr oirr' dh'fhalbh Leòdhas Is cha till. Cha b' fheudar dhòmhsa dhol a sheòladh gu "Astràilia a null", ach tha Hiroshima mun cuairt orm I s leabhar Phasternak 'na mo laimh chan ò1 mi deoch-shlàint' A fuaran féidh fhallain na Màigh ach à bùrn loma-làn de easgainn electric chritheach air m'fheòil mar Venus a' briseadh troimh eanchainn Is dorch-uaine na neòil. Ach 'se lomnochd ghrinn Leódhais a rinn obair mo chinn mar bheart làn de cheòlraidh mhiorbhail 's mhòrachd ar linn.	When she took the great sea on her Lewis went away and did not return. It was not necessary for me to sail away off to far Australia. Our Hiroshima is round about me and Pasternak's book in my hand I'll not drink a draught from the spring of the healthy deer of May but from water full of eels electric and shivering on my flesh, like Venus bursting through the brain and dark green of the clouds. But it was the fine bareness of Lewis that made the work of my head like a loom full of the music of the miracles and nobility of our time.
Iain Mac A' Ghobhainn	Iain Crichton Smith

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