Listen to me, and then in chorus gather
All your deep voices as ye pull your oars.
Chorus—Fair the broad meads, these hoary woods are grand,
But we are exiles from our fathers' land.'
Professor Mackinnon believes that the Gaelic version, known in the Highlands to this day, is founded upon the Earl of Eglinton's lines, and is not, as might be supposed, an earlier form of the poem which is known and loved by Scotch folk all the world over.
CHAPTER X
HIS STORIES
'... Thy genius mingles strength with grace,