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2IO F I N A N AND L R M A:
the third, in the foam of waves, was loft. The two heard the
voice of Finan fail. They bound again into the furgy deep. They
return, with Finan, on the third wave ; but one breathes on the
beach his laft.
" Lor MA bore her brother to the rock. ' Flere,' he fiuntly
faid, ' Let me for a little reft, for my ftrength is failed.'
" She wrapt her robe about his breaft, and made his pillow of
the weeds that were drieft.
" He fleeps. The maid in filence bends over his face. She
bids the waves be ftill, and the noify path of their whales be di-
ftant. And diftant be your ruftling courfe, ye winds of the
mountain ; and foft be yovir gliding, ye ftreams from the vale
of hinds. Quiet, through the bofom of woods, be the noife of
your torrents : and lilent, through ruftling leaves, be your fteps,.
ye dun-bounding roes. Let my brother of love fleep, for his eyes
are heavy. Soft,- Finan, on the dark rock be thy lleep ; calm, my
brother of love, be thy flvimbers.
*' But, ah me! his face is pale; it is wan, as the moon in
her gray watery cloud. The countenance of my brother is un-
lovely. Perhaps he ftill dreams of the troubled deep; for his
brow is dark. It is clouded as the face of children in their un-
fettled reft, when their dreams are of the coming of wolves f- —
Mothers of the tender foul, do you then awake your children from
their flumbers ? Do you bid their fleep depart, and fcatter, as mlft
on
t Mar ghnuis Icinibh, 's e'n faain gun fhois, gentlemen ought to remember, that a great
Abruadarairmaddai'nancoikean. part of Offian's WOrks is loft, in which
Some have quarrelled with Offian for not mention may have been frequently made
making mention of the wolf, fo frequent of this and many other things which we
at that time in his country. But thefe now defiderate.