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INTRODUCTORY.
8uNK is the sun of other days,
That kindled fancy's vivid fire,
That poesy's creative rays,
Poiir'd o'er lernia's magic lyre.
That her the fair flow'r of the wave,
With light's ethereal glow illum'd,
Impregn'd the minstrel breath she gave,
And brightened ev'ry charm she bloom'd ;
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8uNK is the sun of other days,
That kindled fancy's vivid fire,
That poesy's creative rays,
Poiir'd o'er lernia's magic lyre.
That her the fair flow'r of the wave,
With light's ethereal glow illum'd,
Impregn'd the minstrel breath she gave,
And brightened ev'ry charm she bloom'd ;
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77599290 |
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| Description | "a fine-Eirin : a poem, in six cantos : with notes, intended to delineate the manners and state of society of Ancient Ireland." (Imperfect: missing pages 83-94.) |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.99 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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