The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson, Volume 1

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Page 91 - his song. Carril joined his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard on Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along the wood. The silent valleys of night rejoice. So, when he sits in the silence of .the day, in the *Slia'mor, great
Page 138 - the ship of the king. Carry Oscar to Selma of harps. Let the daughters of Morven weep. We must fight in Erin for the race of fallen Cormac. The days of my years begin to fail. I feel the weakness of my arm. My fathers bend from their clouds, to receive their grey-haired son. But,
Page 132 - death of Oscar, her lover. tains the chief. But still his spear is in his hand. See gloomy Cairbar * falls ! The steel pierced his forehead, and divided his red hair behind. He lay, like a shattered rock, which Cromla shakes from its shaggy side; when the green vallied Erin shakes its mountains, from sea to sea!
Page 233 - I was not peaceful in the field. Raise the tombs of those I have slain, around my narrow house. Often shall I forsake the blast, to rejoice above their graves; when I behold them spread around, with their long-whistling grass." His soul rushed to the vale of Moma, to Dardu-lena's dreams, where she slept, by
Page 123 - upon his first landing in a strange country, kept the point of his spear forward, it denoted, in those days, that he came in a hostile manner, and accordingly he was treated as an enemy ; if he kept the point behind him, it was a token of friendship, and he was immediately invited to the feast,
Page 317 - his hand. His shield, half-covered with clouds, is like the darkened moon; when one half still remains in the wave, and the other looks sickly on the field ! His friends sit around the king, on mist! They hear the songs of Ullin: he strikes the half-viewless harp. He raises the feeble voice. The lesser
Page 59 - though very young, took the command of Cuthullin's army, made head against Cairbar the usurper, and defeated him in several battles. Cairbar at last having found means to murder Cormac, the lawful king, the army of Nathos shifted sides, and he himself was obliged to return into Ulster, in order to pass over into Scotland. Dar-thula, the
Page 91 - like the strength of the waves of Lego. Why art thou so dark, Slimora*! with all thy silent woods ? No star trembles on thy top. No moon-beam on thy side. But the meteors of death are there; the grey watery forms of ghosts. Why art thou dark, Slimora! with thy silent woods?
Page 3 - is overcome, bound, and delivered over as a prisoner to the care of Ossian, and Gaul, the son of Morni; Fingal, his younger sons, and Oscar, still pursue the enemy. The episode of Orla, a chief of Lochlin, who was mortally wounded in the battle, is introduced. Fingal, touched with the
Page 105 - But, lonely dweller of the rocks! look thou on that heathy plain. Thou seest green tombs, with their rank, whistling grass : with their stones of mossy heads. Thou seest them, son of the rock, but Ossian's eyes have failed. A mountain-stream comes roaring down, and • Alluding to the religious hymns of the

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