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■230 C A T H U L A:
He hails it ; but it is already gone. The dun-robed clouds have
drawn their fliade over its path, and w^ho can trace its footfteps ?
The leaflefs viroods lament its departure; tlaeir branches figh to
every breeze ; and the drooping herbs of the mountain Vv'ither.
The fun, O woods, fliall again return ; and your green leaves,
in his warm beam, will flourifli. The feafon of your youth will
come back, and all your bare boughs will rejoice. From the height
of his beauty, the dweller of heaven will look down : he will fmlle
through the thin fparkling fliower, on the herbs tfeat are withered
They alfo will come forth from their winter-houfe, and lift their
green glittering head on the bank of their fecret ftream. — They
will come forth from their dark houfe, with joy : but the dwellers
of the tomb remain ftill in their place ; no warm beam of the fun
fhall revive them. — But your memory, companions of my fame,
fhall remain ; your deeds fliall defcend, a beam of light to future
times, and be the tale of the years that fliall come. — Hear, dwel-
ler of the rock, the tale of Inlftore. Dim-gleaming, it comes on
tke foul of the bard. It comes like a faint moon-beam on the di-
flant wave, when Lumon j" fears the fl:orm.
The feafl of Cathula was prepared, and Fingal raifed the fail.
The wind came down with its rufliing nolfe from our mountains.
Beneath its fleps is the groan of oaks. On the deep is the roai- of
waves.
Mar bhoisge grelne 'j a gheamhra' Ri doirre fgiamhach nan gcug uc,
"S e ruiili na dheann air raon Lea'iia; 'Sni gach crann sa cheituin gaire
^S amh\iil fin la'itli nam Fiann 'G amharc ann aird ri mac nan fpeur, &c.
Mar ghrian eidlr-fbrafach a' treigfin. . ^g feveral partS of this poem arC fup-
Dh'aom ncoil chiar-dhu' nan fpciir, ,• . r i i , r , i i
,,,.., J .,,. ^ , . plied from the tale or /Vfii/acM, the nar-
S bhum lad an deo aoibnin on t lealgair : ' Jt> '
Tha bmagheuga na coill a' caoidh, nation is more proli^ than it is in the gc-
'S mao' lufrach an t flcibh a' fcargu* licral run of old Galic pOCmS.
Aci. piUiJi. fathaia a ghriau l Lumon ; thc name of a bay.