Cromarty's Gaelic Chapel
By Melkur
Mon, 28 Jan 2013
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Built for the influx of workers,
Heeding the hammersmith call,
The hard grind of the Industrial Revolution.
Beneath this roof the Highlanders sang
To the giving out of the line
That would make them fishers of men.
Roofless and ruined now, sunk in its ways,
The boarded-up steeple looms on the skyline,
Guarded round by gravestones in twilight.
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Liked this melkur. had an
Liked this melkur. had an "eerieness" about it. Very haunting.
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But the middle verse shows
But the middle verse shows the liveliness when in use, when needed, when there were people wanting to gather, to worship, to hear, to be served. A neat picture again. Rhiannon
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