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154 GAUL:
received thy fame. I will retire and give the name of Gaul to the
fong. — Harp of Sehna, where art thou ? And where art thou5
Malvina ? Thou wilt hear with joy of the companion * of thy
Ofcar.
The night was ftormy and dark : ghofts flirieked on the heath:
torrents roared from the rock of the hill : thunders rolled, like
breaking rocks, through clouds ; and lightnings travelled on their
dark-red wings through the fky. — On that night, our heroes ga-
thered in Selma's halls ; the halls that are now an heap ! the oak
blazed in the midft. Their faces flione in its light, joyful between
their dark locks ; and the fliell went round, with its fparkling joy f.
The bards fung, and the foft hand of virgins trembled on the
firing of the harp.
The night flew on the wings of gladnefs. We thought the flars
had fcarce meafxircd half their way, when gray morning arofe, from
the troubled clouds of her repofe in the eaft. The fhield of Fin-
gal
* The difparity of age between Ga.ul Bloidh fgeilh air a caithe le haois!
and Ofcar was confiderable. Yet the ^" s'^"'"'^ "''•'"'"' ' """'•
Sgia Ghuill fi a t'aiin
fimilaiity of their charaders might na- Sgia c/«7.i« mo dheagh ofcair!
turally attach them to each other. The
original word, however, which is render-
ed companion, is obfolete, and may only r n rr^i n i • i
, ^, , ,v I J • ) J Joells^ The moft probable is, that it was
import that they went hand in hand to . . *^
1. ..1 I- r . r u f .L rr made of a juice extracted from the birch-
battle. 1 infert fo much of the paffage •'
as may enable thofe who underftand the *""""• ^"'^ fermented. This would be
langage to judge of the meaning of the """'^ Palatable than that which it is faid
expreffion. ^^^^ made of a certain kind of heath, and
Sa choppain dgheach nam War! "^o^e fuited to their exigencies than any
Is far-aoibhin learn fathafd t fluiaim ; fpoils of winC which they might, at timCS,
Tha c dufga' nan laidh chuaidh fcach : Carry away from the Roman province.
'Sa dh'aindcoin aois, tha manam a 'leimiiich. r\ .u • i... rrui u i i-
■ Ur they might polhbly have malt-liquors
• Ach uam fmuainte nam blar, r , ,-,-n .i^ ,
■.S mo (hieagh air fas na luirg ; ^'■°'" °'''" P"'^ *^f ^^^ '"3"'* ^^^°'^ ^^^Y
An fgia' choppach tuiile cha bhuaii i; thcmfelvcs paid any attention to agricuU
Ach ciod fo'ii fliuaim a dhuifg i ? turc.
f There are feveral opinions with re-
gard to the liquor ufed in thefe feajis of