That I will soon be showing.

From the MacCailein a good part

Of my life’s blood I borrow,

MacCailein bountiful to bards,

Then how should I find sorrow?

In Earla I was born and bred,

I tell you true the story,

A very noble place it is,

’Twixt Aros and Tobermory,

Macdonald lies off to the west: