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|?OEMS OF OSSI'AN. "90
Englifh Tranflatlon.
The Author of this is Ossian»
f Know ye a fhort tale of Fingal !
A tale that claims your attention.
It concerns the fon of Comhal of powei-ful fway j
Whom, while I live, I (hall in woe remember.
We were few in his train,
By the fall of Roya, that foftly murmurs,
When we faw a large failed boat afar.
Which conveyed a fair over ocean,
pifty alert heroes fat around the king ;
Trufty were their deeds in fupport of right.
How unhke, alas ! are they whom I behold in yo\ir ftead;
P ye, whofe ftrength could controul each land !
We all flood up in haile,
Except Fingal himfelf, and Gaul,
To wait on the high bounding boat,
Whofe courfe was parting the waves.
It neither flackened nor relied,
Till it entered our wonted haven.
it crofTed the pool below the fall.
When out of it rofe a daughter of youth.
Brighter fhe fhone than a beam of the fun ;
Her air and manner exceeded her form.
In prefence of the fair, who came from afar,
We all refpedful ftood.
She proceeds to the tent of Fingal,
/^nd greets him in mufical accent,
•^he fon of Comhal made fuitable replvj
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