On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog. A Gaelic Elegy

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On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog. A Gaelic Elegy

Poet(s)

MacDonald, Alastair

Credits

Translator

Stewart, Alexander

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 14:706, 432, 7 July 1877.

First line

Mournful my tale to tell

Original language

Scottish Gaelic

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

Notes and attribution research

Headnote to the poem states that it first appeared in The Scotsman on 17 May. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for this poem is blank (NLS Dep 341/371). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 6879

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog. A Gaelic Elegy