- There are two affairs that are wasting our minds,
To be thinking of them makes us miserable;
Their grip has reduced our affability by a degree,
And our pleasures have retired back from us by a leap.- Love of justice and fear of injustice,
At every tiuie in our remembrance estimating them;
Without being known which of them gains the sway
Except when God gives a helping hand.- The nobles of the lands of the country of Scotland
Are deprived of their place without justice;
Is it not a wonder while their will is to return,
That they receive not their desire with respect?- The right of the crown is with another,
And the King of Britain has lost his rights;
That has awakened every man to his loss,
And the Gael are not at ease from the contest.
- Their relief is not to be obtained in Ulster,
Although their people were beloved in Magh Fail;
Since the parties have been taken,
Leaving the King of England over sea.- There is news coming with a mustered force,
Every day arousing amongst us;
On account of us being without them, except as a loan,
The kingdom is not at ease by it.- To us it is more rueful than to all others.
To the race of Colla of the warlike deeds (steeds?)
They are out of their inheritance and rank,
The people that gave payment to the poets.- The royal blood of Ranald is the chief guardian,
They are without the possessions of the blood of Conn;
The want of thy government lowered my pride,
Thy arrival was the signal for our loyalty.- The grandson of John not being in his ancestral inheritance.
Our minds have decayed contemplating it;
Nuts from a wood that bears no fruit.
From a wood by which our hopes have been blasted.- Let us give a call with a fervence of will,
To the Heir of Mary, the Son of God,
Should they be in danger of sustaining a loss,
Since He is the Head of our nobility.- May he come free to the rights of his kindred,
To maintain the possessions of the ancient (house);
Our chieftain calm and our prince hospitable,
The guide of our nobles who would pay the troops.- As Ranald is the king of our choice,
I implore Christ to send him to protect us,
That he may come to pay us our will,
In the right of the princes ever before him.- May the chief of our instruction come unto us,
Who is descended from the blood of Conn and Colla Uais,
In the government of the royal tribe of Ranald,
His protecting clan by whom I have lived without danger.- If it should be pleasing to the King of all Kings,
To bring him to the inheritance of the blood of Conn;
He would not refuse the most hazardous meeting,
He would bring us safe into security.
- Praise be unto Him who created the world
That the scion of our government should be freed by Him;
As He divided the sea before Moses,
And subdued the flood of every oppression.- O, son of Donald, thou blood of my heart,
Implore often the Son of God
For everything that is wanting to thee,
And he will readily grant it.- Look continually on the path of Jesus,
Since a Son came down to the Virgin Mary,
Who took upon Him a crown to redeem us,
Receive honor as a burden to thee.- From a man descended the heir of our fathers
To pay the tributes which fell heavy [upon us];
How his mother was praising him
While proceeding on the hollow earth [i.e., earth below].- Since Mary's Son became incarnate,
Until he was crucified on the tree;
Let us implore the chief of the shoulder cross,
The joyous plant of all pride.- Go thou onward in the track of the child,
Son of Donald of the pleasing figure;
Although you may not find this world agreeable,
Accept the invitation by which you shall be saved.- As you may not find but sorrow and trouble,
In submitting to the will of glorious heaven;
Believe that the sunshine of this world is short,
More delightful is the beauty of the everlasting life.- Submit to the Father of all,
The King from whom we shall receive the greatest goodness;
The tribute which is not neglected in demanding it,
Is the tribute of your mind to be paid to Him.Two causes.