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ADRAMATICPOEM. 91
of his horn in mine ear. O that I were on the banks of Carun !
that my tears might be warm on his cheek !
HiDALLLAN.
He lies not on the banks of Carun : on Ardven heroes raife his
tomb. Look on them, O moon, from thy clouds ; be thy beam
bright on his breaft, that Comala may behold him in the light of
his armour.
Comala.
Stop, ye fbns of the grave, till I behold my love. He left mc
at the chace alone. I knew not that he went to war. He faid he
would return with the night; and the king of Morven is returned.
Why didft thou not tell me that he would fall, O trembling fon of
the rock * ! Thou haft Ceen hina in the blood of his youth, but
thou didft not tell Comala !
Melilcoma.
What found is that on Ardven ? Who is that bright in the
vale ? Who comes like the ftrength of rivers, when their crowded
waters glitter to the moon ?
Comala.
Who is it but the foe of Comala, the fon of the king of the
world ! Ghoft of Fingal ! do thou, from thy cloud, diredl Comala's
bow. Let him fall like the hart of the defart. It is Fingal in
the crowd of his ghofts. — Why doft thou come, my love, to frighten
and pleafe my foul ?
* By the fan of the rock fhe means a beginning of the reign of Fingal ; and that
druid. It is probable that fome of the or- Comala had confulted one of them con-
der of the druids remained as late as the cerning the event of the war with Caracul.
N 2 Fingal.