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the daughter of Rinval, who dwelt at Lotha's -f- mighty ftream.
The tale was long, but. lovely ; and ple,afe^ the blufhing maid
q£ Tora.
Crimora *.
Who cometh from the hill, like a cloud tinged with the beam of
the weft? Whofe. voice is that, loud as the wind, but pleafant as
the harp of Qarril + ? It is my loye in the light of fteel ; but fad is
his darkened brow. Live the mighty race of Fingal ? or what
difturbs my Connal || ?
CONNAL.
They live. I faw them return from the chace, like a ftream of
light. The fun was on their fliields. Like a ridge of fire they de-
fcended the hill. Loud k the voice of the youth ; the war, my
love, is near. To-morrow the terrible Dargo comes to try the
force of our race. The race of Fingal he defies ; the race of battle
and wounds.
Crimora.
Connal, I faw his fails like gray mill: on the fable wave. They
flowly came to land. Connal, many are the warriors of Dargo !
t -Lotha was the ancient name of one Cuchullin's bard. The name itfelf is pro-
of the great rivers in the north of Scotland, per to any bard, as it fignifies a fprightly
The only one of them that ftill retains a and harmonious found,
name of a like found is Lochy, in Inver- || Connal, the fon of Diaran, was one of
nefcfhire ; but v.-hether it is the river men- the mod famous heroes of Fingal ; he was
tioned here, the tranflator will not pretend flain in a battle againft Dargo a Briton ;
to fay. but whether by the hand of the enemy, or
* .Cri-mora, a vcoman of a great foul. that of his miftrefs, tradition does not de-
X Perhaps the Carril mentioned here is termine.
the fame with Carwl the fon of Kinfena,
Connal.