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Some Thoughts on Form ix Paths & Fruits 5 By Kilbrannan Sound 9 Thainig Na Naoi Sonais 10 Creag Liath 11 Coire Fhionn Lochan 15 Sixteen Fiddle Tunes 16 The High Path 17 Is It Far 22 The Far-glimpsed Island 23 The Music of the Wind 24 Cumulus Nimbus Stratus 25 About Nothing in Particular 27 Sonnets 29 Graveyard by the Sea 37 The Fort of Stillness 41 The Quiet Island 42 Some Details of Hebridean House Construction 44 The Earthly Paradise 46 String 47 Green & Yellow 50 The Little Loch of the Trout 52 The Slender Naiad 53 A Thin Trickle 54 Of Woods & Water 56 Hollow 68 Cress & Mint 68 The Grey Plover 69 Melodeon 69 Willow Warbler 70