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The mouth will not tell[,] tell us what effect Siléas's marriage (in 1685) had on this beadra [probably from Gàidhlig "beadarach" meaning "full of fun, playful"), but it is said that she had a 'meeting' with death.

[2] Others include anti-war laments for friends killed in the Jacobite risings of the period, humorous advice to unmarried women, and a handful of devotional Christian poetry.

Among the Jacobite poems attributed to her is Tha mi am chadal, "I am sleeping", closely related to the Irish air Táimse im' chodladh.

[3] Her best known poem is her c. 1723 eulogy for Alasdair Dubh, 11th Chief of Clan MacDonald of Glengarry, which praises the deceased for following the code of conduct traditionally demanded of a Scottish clan chief and hearkens back to the Old Irish poetry attributed to the mythological bard Amergin Glúingel.

[4] She was the main war poet in the first Jacobite rising of 1715 but is also known for her Christian poetry like the "Hymn On The Death Of Her Husband And Daughter".

To The Army of the Earl of Mar or Song on the Battle of Sherriffmuir
To The Army of the Earl of Mar or Song on the Battle of Sherriffmuir