“Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig ("Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig")”

— Sorley MacLean

First line of Hallaig
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Scottish poet 1911–1996

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“Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig ("Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig")”

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