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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VV hcii the third day had closed.
The Garve no longer Stood on the field of valoni-.
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*' I declare on the word of a king.
That from the fair land of Erin,
I shall not depart in my ship.
Until Cuthullin yield to me."
" I too, on the word of a king, declare^
(Replied the warrior, tall and dark,)
That my yielded pledge sh^ll not be carried to pea,
While I alone do live.
Nor shall he who is a foreign fop
Bear captives from me over wjives.*'
Then did Cnthullin rear his shield
Over the grey-coped postern.
Naos looked on his two spears,
And Conal grasped his sword.
" Let the sons of kings assemble instantly'
In the honse of Taura, to their trust,
And let them turn out on the field
Their able warriors in my presence.
Son of Cairbar from the red tree I
Thou who art generous beyond all, and without guile ! [tain,
Bring Luga, the good, frcan the green dwelling of his moun^
high. The son of Favi leaves the dark-brown hind. It is
the shield of war, ^said Ronnar I the spear of Cuthullin,
said Lugar ! Son of the sea, put on thy arms ! Calmar, lift:
thy sounding steel 1 Puno ! dreadful hero, arise ! Cairbar,
from thy red tree of Cromla I Bend thy knee, O Eth ; de-
scend from the streams of Lena. Ca-olt, stretch thy side,
as thoumovest along the whistling heath of Mora : thy side
that is white as the foam of the troubled sea, xvhen the dark
winds pour it on rocky Cuthon,
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