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Scots language

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

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Poem quotations likened to Miss Beatson, 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/77
Scope and Contents

Poem quotations likened to a Miss Beatson [possibly Margaret or Elizabeth Beatson, the daughters of the minister of Barraigh/Isle of Barra] 'Miss Beatson is like Word[sworth]'s A rosebud by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye...Or - A mossy rosebud down you know, Just op'ning fresh & bonnie...But more beautiful than either...is Oss[ian] Bha sgeimh mar sholaist ga h-eud eud (sic), Bha ceuma mar cheol nan dan.'

Dates: 1867