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Kinloch Ainort - by Sorley MacLean

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A company of mountains, an upthrust of mountains,
a great garth of growing mountains,
a concourse of summits, of knolls, of hills
coming on with a fearsome roaring.

Here’s the Weather - by Stuart A. Paterson

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Fae stooshie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck / we’re steeped in the downpour of dialect.
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Garland for the Winter Solstice - by Ruthven Todd

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Now, perched on this polar height
When all sap lies quiet and does not climb,
When all seems dead, I cultivate
The wild garden rioting in my memory

Clan Donald’s Call to Battle At Harlaw - by Robert Crawford

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after the Gaelic of Lachlann Mor MacMhuirich (fl. 1411)
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/ You Clann of Conn, remember this:
/ Strength from the eye of the storm.
/ Be…