On the hillock, where they lie down,
May they safely rise.”
AGAINST DROWNING AND IN WAR.
(Sian roi’ bhàthadh ’s an Cogadh.)
A native of the Island of Coll, who served in the British army from the taking of Copenhagen, throughout the Peninsular and continental wars, and only died this year (1874), a most kind-hearted and powerfully built man, attributed his safe return from the wars in some measure to having learned this charm in his youth:
“The charm Mary put round her Son,
And Bridget put in her banners,
And Michael put in his shield,
And the Son of God before His throne of clouds;
A charm art thou against arrow,