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watery way, drop the double tear; for here, with her beloved Gaul,
is the ilumbering Evirchoma.
" But ah! what voice is that in the breeze? The cries of Ogal
pour, helplefs, in my ear. They awake my fleeping foul. Yes ; my
foul rolls reftlefs within, and toiTes from fide to fide in its uneafy
bed. And why heaves thus the foul of Gaul ; why burfts that
figh from the warrior's breafl? Feel thus the hearts of fathers for
their fons; have they, at times, the foul of a mother? Yes, for I
feel the flirrings of thine: let me bear thee to the fldff where our
child was left. Come, the burden of my love will be light : Evir-
choma will be ftrong when her Gavil is in danger. — Give me that
Ipear, it will fvipport on the flrore my fleps."
She bore him to her ikiif. She ftruggled all night with the
wave. The parting ftars beheld the decay of her (Irength : the
morning light beheld it fail, as the mift that melts in the beam
of heat *.
I SLEPT, that night, on the hvmter's heath. Morni, with all his
gray, parted locks, rofe in my dreams. Above me he leaned on
his trembling flafF. His face of age was fad ; it was marked with
the courfe of the tear. The ftream Wandered, here and there, on
his cheek. The deep furrows, which time had worn, were full.
Thrice looked the red eye of the aged over the deep j and thrice
arofe his figh. " Is this," he faintly faid, " a time for the friend
of Gaul to fleep?" — Ablaft comes, ruflUng, along the bended trees.
Its noife awakes the cocfc of the heath. At the root of his dark-
brown
* In the mofl common editions of Tiom- called Aina. It begins with
na 'Ghuill a long dialogue is foilled in here, A Righbhin is bhine ceol
h- 1 • • XI. 1 r • u 1 Gluais cH malda, 's na gabh bron, &c.
ich IS rejcaed as fpunous, or belong- " b ' > e> >
ing to fome other Gaul whofe wife was