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

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And each bird fhall perch, as it arrives,
On a fprig of its verdant branch.
Gaul in his mift flidl hear their chearful note,
While virgins are finging of Evirchoma.
Until all of thefe fhal' prrlfh,
Your memory {hall not be difunited :
Until the ftone crumble into duft,
r And this tree decay with age ;
Until ftreams ceafe to run,
And the fource of the mountain waters be dried up ;
Until there be loft, in the flood of age,
Each bard, and fong, and fubjed of ftory,
The ftranger {hall not a{]{, ' Who was Morni's fon ?
Or where was the dwelling of the king of Strumon ì''
Of this latter part of the poem, called, from the
principal figure in it, ' Leaba GhuUl^ the Bed of
Gaul, the Committee received another copy, differ-
ing very little from the above, from a mofl refpeèt-
able correfpondent, the Reverend Mr M'-Dlarmid,
minifter of Weem in Perthfhire, which he procured
in a channel altogether different from that of Dr
Smith, and tranfmitted to the Committee, before
he knew that it had been previoully publiflied. That
the Society may have an opportunity of comparing
the original with Dr Smith's copy, it is fubjoined,
immediately after that copy, in the Appendix, p.
184. The literal tranflation, as given by Mr Mac-
Diarmid, is as follows :
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