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First:Seven from Mull:

The poem:Shoreline.- Thanks for the comment.Could poetry be a way of saying a lot in a few cleverly chosen words? However,maybe you prefer prose! The world is bunged full of both,prose and poetry - mind boggling to say the least!

I'd like to make it pay - very difficult, I believe!





Secondly:Angus from Glasgow:

Comment:1/4/04 to "Life on the croft..." Sorely Maclean was indeed a very remarkable man and, unfortunately, I'm not as acquainted with his works as I would like to be. Thanks for quoting from "Hallaig."I appreciate this gesture a lot. May I in return just quote from this same piece what appeals to me, and that I find very poignant:-

...I'll go to Hallaig

to the sabbath of the dead

Down to where each departed

Generation has gathered.

Hallaig is where they survive

All the Macleans and the Macleods

who were there in the time of MacGille

Challuim:

The dead have been seen alive

The men are at their length on the grass

At the gable of every house,

The girls a wood of birch trees

standing tall, with their heads bowed...

Thanks a lot,

Island wanderer.