Ossian Collection > Fingal

7^ f , I N G A L, Book VL
Be thy foul blelt, O Carril, in the midll: of thy eddyuig winds.
O that thou wouldfl come to my hall when I am alone by night !
—And thou doft come, my friend, I hear often thy light hand on
my harp ; when it hangs on the diftant wall, and the feeble found
touches my ear. Why doft thou not fpeak to me in my grief, and
tell when I fliall behold my friends ? But thou paffeft away in thy
murmuring blaft; and thy wind whiftles through the gray hair
of Offian.
Now on the fide of Mora the heroes gathered to the feaft. A
thoufand aged oaks are burning to the wind. The ftrength * of
the (hells goes round. And the fouls of warriors brighten with joy.
But, the king of Lochlin is filent, and forrow reddens in the eyes of
his pride. He often turned toward Lena and remembered that
he fell.
FiNG AL leaned on the fliLeld of his fathers. His gray locks (lowly
waved on the wind, and glittered to the beam of night. He faw
the grief of Swaran, and fpoke to the (irfi: of Bards.
Raise, Ullin, raife the fong of peace, and (both my foul after
battle, that my ear may forget the noiie of arms. And let a hun-
dred harps be near to gladden the king of Lochlin. He muft depart
from us with jov. None ever went fad from Fingal. 0(car ! the
* By the ftrength of the (hell is meant our anceftors had them from the Romans,
the liquor ilic heroes drunk : of what kind if they had them at all. The Caledonians
it was, cannot be afcertained at this diftance in their frequent incurfions to the province
of time. The tranflator has met with fe- might become acquainted with ihofe con-
veral ancient poems that mention wax- veniencies of life, and introduce them into
lights and wine as common in the halls of their own country, among the booty which
Fingal. The names of both are borrowed they carried from South Britain,
from the Latin, which plainly (hews that
lightning