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Hallaig
Martyn Bennett
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Time the deer is in the wood of Hallaig
The window is nailed and boarded through which I saw the west
And my love is at the burn of Hallaig a birch tree
And she has always been between Inver and Milk Hollow
Here and there about Ballachorn
She is a birch, a hazel, a straight slender young raven
In Scrapatle of my people where Norman and Big Hector were
Their daughters and their sons are a wood going up beside the stream
Throughout the night the pinecocks crowing on the top of Crocharagh
Straight their backs in the moonlight
They are not the wood I love
I will wait for the birch wood until it comes up by the cairn
Until the whole ridge from Benyliche will be under its shade
If it does not I will go down to Hallaig to the Sabbath of the dead
Where the people are frequenting
Every single generation gone
They are still in Hallaig, Macleans and Macleods
All who were there in the time of Machaich Allan
The dead have been seen alive
The men lying on the green at the end of every house that was
The girls a wood of birches
Straight their backs, bent their heads
Between the learch and ferns the road is under mild moss
And the girls in silent bands go to Clachan as in the beginning
And return from Clachan from Suisnich and the land of the living
Each one young and light stepping
Without the heartbreak of the tale
From the burn of ferns to the raised beach
That is clear in the mystery of the hills
There is only the congregation of
The girls keeping up the endless walk
Coming back to Hallaig in the evening in the dumb living twilight
Filling the steep slopes
Their laughter a mist in my ear
And their beauty a film on my heart
Before the dimness comes on the kyles
And when the sun goes down behind Dunkenna
A firmament bullet will come from the gun of love
And will strike the deer that goes dizzily
Sniffing at the grass-grown ruined homes
His eye will freeze in the wood
His blood will not be traced while I live
Is carlin le linn éag corn focha
Go mianáirt i ndiaidh
Is amadú na geall
Do mhuin clú mheithir
Is faighrí a bheith rinne ceol
Sliabh an bhainne
Lámh sa bhos mo ghaol a thóin
Ainn a bheith ina cabh
D'aon chúr i mír a chéir
Is graithe do mo chinní
Fara tráná tairm mór
Ainn íonann sa mích
Na nghaill a gá
Sua si tú mo lóin
Mhaighn dhroch an loch
Na cailleadh iúis
A gcéim ar mlocht
Nach gá
Díreach an roimh
Is gealladh
Ainn íatsa
An chailleadh mo ghrá