Ossian Collection > Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian

106 ALBIN ANO THR
The Story makes each heart but thine to bleed,
And fills both men and maids with keenest grief !
Beheld thy daughter, beauteous as the sky
When early morn ascends yon eastern hills.
She lov'd the youth who by tliy guile did die.
And now our ears with lamentations fills :
'Tis she, v.'ho sad, and grovelling on the ground,^
Weeps o'er his grave, and makes the woods resound.
A tiiousand graces did the maid adorn :
Ker looks were charming, and her heart was kind;
Her eyes were like the windows of the morn.
And wisdom's habitation was her mind.
A hundred heroes try'd her love to gain ;
She pity'd them, yet did their suits deny :
Young Albin only courted not in vain,
Albin alone v/as lovely in her eye :
Love fill'd their bosoms with a mutual flame j
Their birth was equal, and their age the same,
Ker mother Mey, a woman void of truth.
In practice of deceit and guile grown old,
Conceiv'd a guilty passion for the youth,
And in his ear the shameful story told :
But o'er his mind she never could prevail ;
For in his life no wickedness v\'as found ;■
With shame and rage he heard the horrid tale,
And shook with indignation at the sound :
He fied to shun her ; while with burning wrath
The iTionster, in revenge, decreed his death.
Amidst Lochmey, at distance from the shore,
On a green island, grew a stately tree,
Vv''ith precious fruit each season cover'd o'erj^
Delightful to the taste and fair to see : '
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