Reject their speech with scorn;
Thy breath to me smells sweeter
Than dewy grass in morn.
Some of the most popular songs are anonymous. Ho-ro Eileinich belongs to this class, and is a great favourite at large Highland gatherings on account of the swinging character of the air and metre. Here are a few verses:—
O, green island of the sea!
Native home, I love but thee:
Fairest fields of earth that be,—
The bonnie braes of Landai.
There afar I see Ardmore,