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FOEMS OF OSSIAN. 143
The fame meafure will be found in the original of
another war-fong, communicated to the Committee,
from memory, by its correfpondent the Reverend
Mr Gallic, inWs letter of 4th March 1801, taken
into this Report, p. 39. That war-fong or ode,
with a literal tranflation, is as follows :
* A mhacain cheann
Nan cm fan ftrann
Ard leumnach righ na'n fleagU
Lamh threjn 'fguch cas
Croidhe ard gun fca
Ceann airm nan rinn gear goirt
GeaiT fio3 gu bas
Gun bharc fheol ban
Bhi fnamh ma dhubh InniHitorc
Mar tharnaiiech bhaoil
Do bhuill a laoich
Do iliuil mar chaoir ad cheapi:
Mar cliaraic chruin
Do chroidlie gun roinn
Mar laffan oidhch do laoa
Cum fuar do fcia
Is crobbliui nial
Mar chih bho reul a bhaiilt
A mhacain cheann
Nan curfan ftrann
Sgrios aaimhde fios gu lar/
* OfFspring of the chiefs
Of fnorting, high-bounding Heeds }
King of fpears !
Strong arm in every trial ;
^mbitious heart without difinar ;
I " , Chidf

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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian
DescriptionDrawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie ... ; with a copious appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded.
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