So heedful, ne’er to seek him or to meet,

The first small wonder quickly passed away.

And so from Oban’s little land-locked bay

Forth out to Jura—Jura pictured high

With lofty peaks against the western sky,

Jura, that far o’erlooks the Atlantic seas,

The loftiest of the Southern Hebrides.

Through the main sea to Jura;—when we reach

Jura, we turn to leftward to the breach,

And southward strain the narrow channel through,