And bid them in their Maker hope,

The boat is making a good way,

No man will die but him that’s fey,

We’ve all in dangers been ere now:

At Nicolson’s rock they brought her to,

Near Scorebreck in Trotternish,

Their lodging in a byre it was,

All wet and weary as they were,

Lay on the ground, sleep seiz’d him there,

In which he sigh’d, and starting said,