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Updated: June 18, 2025
Soon the laughter of the Little Ones overtook me, like sheep-bells innumerable, rippling the air, and echoing in the rocks about me. I turned again, and again gazed after them: they went gamboling along, with never a care in their sweet souls. But Lona walked apart with her baby. Pondering as I went, I recalled many traits of my little friends.
For an instant that awful dream of desolation overshadowed me, and I turned aside. "What is it, my heart?" said Lona. "Their empty places frightened me," I answered. "They are up and away long ago," said Adam. "They kissed you ere they went, and whispered, 'Come soon." "And I neither to feel nor hear them!" I murmured. "How could you far away in your dreary old house!
Speak truth, Queen Lona, if you would find favour with God! Then the woman's great longing for a son conquered her pride, and though her husband stood by, she humbled herself before the faqir and told the truth, how she had deceived the father and destroyed the son.
The great angel could guide us no farther: those rocks we must ascend alone! My heart beating with hope and desire, I held faster the hand of my Lona, and we began to climb; but soon we let each other go, to use hands as well as feet in the toilsome ascent of the huge stones.
Into the rafters of this aerial vault the children climbed, and through them went scrambling and leaping in a land of bloom, shouting to the unseen elephants below, and hearing them trumpet their replies. The conversations between them Lona understood while I but guessed at them blunderingly.
I had seen the lightning, but heard no words; Lona saw and heard with the children. A second flash came, and my eyes, though not my ears, were opened. The great quivering light was compact of angel-faces. They lamped themselves visible, and vanished. A third flash came; its substance and radiance were human. "I see my mother!" I cried. "I see lots o' mothers!" said Luva.
One of the smallest of the British Isles, situated near a rugged and barren coast, surrounded by dangerous seas, and possessing no sources of internal wealth, Iona has obtained an imperishable place in history as the seat of civilization and religion at a time when the darkness of heathenism hung over almost the whole of Northern Europe. lona or Icolmkill is situated at the extremity of the island of Mull, from which it is separated by a strait of half a mile in breadth, its distance from the mainland of Scotland being thirty-six miles.
So they made a goodly company, and Queen Lona, when she saw them going, watched them from her window till she saw nothing but a cloud of dust on the horizon; then she bowed her head on her hands and wept, saying 'O son who ne'er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!
The Pictish monarch was so impressed with a sense of his wisdom and worth that he held him in the highest honor, and the neighboring chiefs and princes sought his counsel and availed themselves of his judgment in settling their disputes. When Columba landed on lona he was attended by twelve followers whom he had formed into a religious body of which he was the head.
It is in reference to all these remains of ancient religion that Johnson exclaims, "That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of lona."
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