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D A R G O:
A P O E M *.
The argument.
CoMHAL, failing to Innisfail, lands on a defart ifle through night. Here he meets
•with Dargo, who was fuppofed to have been loft on their return from a former
expedition. To comfort Dargo, who had got fome intimation of the death of his
fpoufe Crimora, UUin introduces the epifode of Colda and Minvela. Arriving at
Innisfail in the mo.ming, they engage Armor, a chief of Lochlin, who falls in
battle.— Crinroina, who had followed Armor in difguife, is difcovered at night
mourning over his grave, and carried to the hall of Innisfail, where Ullin, to divert
her grief, relates the ftory of Morglan and Minona. The next day, Comhal pro-
pofes to fend her home; but, on her choofing to live in Morven, fhe is brought
there, and becomes the fecond wife of Dargo.
Some time after this, Connan, at a hunting party, fuggeftlng fome doubts of Cri-
moina's attachment to them, as they were at variance with her people, propofes to
make trial of her love by ftaining Dargo with the blood of a wild boar which they
had killed, and carrying him home as dead. Crimoina was fo alFefted with the
fuppofed death of her hulband, that, after having fung his elegy to the harp, (lie
fuddenly expired befide him.
PART I.
O EE! Dargo refls beneath his lonely tree, and liflens to the
^^ breeze in its r\iftUng leaf. The ghofl of Crimoina rifes on
the blue lake below : the deer fee it, and ilalk, without fear, on
the
* This poem, which goes under the Perhaps it owes much of the regard
name of Dan an Deirg, has been in fuch paid it, to that tender and plaintive, tho'
eftimation as to pafs into a proverb; fimple, air to which it isftill fung. There
Cach dangu dan an Dcirg. are few who have any at all of Offinn'i
poems.