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Da Oran Airson Ceilidh Uir	Two Songs For A New Ceilidh
"Thoir Lunnainn ort," thubhairt iad rium. "Arms a' bhaile mhór ni thu ceòl i solus goirt cruaidh do chuim." IS bha mi stri rium fhin bliadhnachan mòr' a' smaoineachadh air na sràidean ud, daoine le cumhachd geur 'nan gniiis, is tagsaidh shoillseach dhealrach a' lasradh uinneagan mo thùir. Ach an nochd an so ris an teine 's na cnuic eadar mi fhìn 's an speur 's mi 'g ésdeachd r's an t-sàmhachd fhalamh 's a' faicinn nam fiadh a' tighinn gu m'éigh tha m' smao'neachadh air fear eile a thubhairt na facail a tha fìor: "Seall dìreach s'os troimh choill is choille. Seall 'na do chridhe fhéin 's sgrìobh."	"Go to London," they said to me. "In the great city you will make songs from the sore hard light of your breast." And I strove with myself for many years thinking of those streets, men with sharp power in their gaze, and illuminated glittering taxis lighting the windows of my mind. But tonight sitting by the fire and the hills between me and the sky listening to the empty silence and seeing the deer come to my call I am thinking of another man who spoke the words that are true: "Look directly down through wood and wood. Look in your own heart and write."
Iain Mac A' Ghobhainn	Iain Crichton Smith

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