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«o F I N G A L, Book VI.
No : replied the king, Fingal fhall never take his fvvord. His
arm is mighty in war j and tell him his fame fhall never fail. Many
have been overcome in battle, that have fhone afterwards like the
fun of heaven.
O SwARAN, king of the refounding woods, give all thy grief
away. The vanquished, if brave, are renowned ; they are like
the fun in a cloud when he hides his face in the fouth, but looks
again on the hills of grafs.
Grumal was a chief of Cona. He fought the battle on e\'ery
coaft. His foul rejoiced in blood j his ear in the din of arms. He
poured his warriors on the founding Craca; and Craca's king met
him from his grove j for then within the circle of Brumo * he fpoke
to the flone of power.
Fierce was the battle of the heroes, for the maid of the breaft
of fnow. The fame of the daughter of Craca had reached Grumal
at the ftreams of Cona ; he vowed to have the white- bofomed maid,
or die on the ecchoing Craca. Three days they flrove together, and
Grumal on the fourth was bound.
Far from his friends they placed him in the horrid circle of
Brumo ; where often, they faid, the ghofts of the dead howled round
the (lone of their fear. But afterwards he flione like a pillar of the
light of heaven. They fell by his mighty hand, and Grumal had
his fame.
* This pafTage alludes to the religion of the king of Graca, Sec a note on a fimilar
fubjedl in the third book.
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