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THE SALTAIR NA RANN
There, with a strong-flowing sea (?)is a spacious, perfect city,in it, with the light of peace,[1]is the eternal way of the four chief doors.
The measure of each door severallyof the four chief doorways,(placed) side by side, by calculation,is a mile across each single door.
In each doorway a cross of goldbefore the eyes of the ever-shining host;the King wrought them without effort,they are massive, very lofty.
Overhead, on each cross, a bird of red gold,full-voiced, not unsteady;in every Crossa great gem of precious stone.
Every day an archangelwith his host from Heaven’s king,with harmony, with pure melody,(gather) around each several cross.
Before each doorway is a lawn,fair …, of sure estimation,I liken each one of them in extent[2]to the earth together with its seas.
  1. ↑ Or peaceful light.
  2. ↑ This is the L. B. reading; the text gives "excellence" or "fertility," which does not make good sense.
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