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3 CATH-LODA;
a broken fong on wind. At times (lie tofTes
her white arms : for grief is dwelling in her
foul.
" Torcul-torno *, of aged locks !" fhe faid,
" where now are thy fteps, by Lulan ? Thou
had failed at thine own dark dreams, father of
Conban-cargla! But I behold thee, chief of
Lulan, fporting by Loda's hall, when the
dark-lkirted night is rolled along the fky.—
Thou, fometimes, hided the moon with thy
fhield. I have feen her dim, in heaven. Thou
# Torcul-torno, according to tradition, was king of
Crathlun, a diitricT: in Sweden. The river Lulan ran
near the refidence of Torcul-torno. There is a river in
Sweden, ftill called Lula, which is probably the fame
with Lulan. The war between Starno and Torcul-torno,
which terminated in the death of the latter, had its rife
at a hunting party. Starno being invited, in a friendly
manner, by Torcul-torno, both kings, with their followers,
went to the mountains of Stivamore, to hunt. A boar
rufhed from the wood before the kings, and Torcul-torno
killed it. Starno thought this behaviour a breach upon
the privilege of guefts, who were always honoured) as
tradition exprefles it, ivith the danger of the chafe. A
quarrel arofe, the kings came to battle, with all their at-
tendants, and the party of Torcul-torno were totally de-
feated, and he himfelf flain. Starno purfued his viclory,
laid wade the diftricl of Carthlun, and, coming to the
refidence of Torcul-torno, carried off, by force, Conban-
carglasj the beautiful daughter of his enemy. Her he
Confined in a cave, near the palace of Gonna), where, on
account of her cruel treatment, (lie became diftr.acted.
The paragraph, juft now before us, is the fong of Con-
ban-carglas, at the time fhe was discovered by Fingal.
It is in lyric meafure, and fet to mufic, which is wild
and firriple, and fo inimitably fuited to the filiation of the
unhappy lady, that few can hear it without tears.
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