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124 C O N L A T H and C U T H O N A :
I LIFTED up my fails, with joy, before the halls of generous
Conlath. Mycourfe was by the ifle of waves, where his love pur-
fued the deer. I faw her, like that beam of the fun that iflues from
the cloud. Her hair was on her heaving breafl: -, flie, bending for-
ward, drew the bow : her white arm feemed, behind her, like the
fnow of Cromla : Come to my foul, I faid, thou huntrefs of the
ifle of waves ! But flie fpends her time in tears, and thinks of the ge-
nerous Conlath. Where can I find thy peace, Cuthona, lovely maid!
CU-THONA *.
A DISTANT fteep bends over the fea, with aged trees and mofly
rocks : the billows roll at its feet : on its fide is the dwelling of
roes. The people call it Ardven. There the towers of Mora rife.
There Conlath looks over the fea for his only love. The daughters
of the chace returned, and he beheld their downcaft eyes. Where
is the daughter of Rumar ? But they anfwered not. — My peace dwells
on Ardven, fon of the diftant land !
TOSCAR.
And Cuthona fliall return to her peace ; to the halls of generous
Conlath. He is the friend of Tofcar : I have feafted in his halls. —
Rife, ye gentle breezes of Ullin, and flretch my fails towards Ard-
ven's fhores. Cuthona fliall reft on Ardven : but the days of Tof-
car will be fad. — I fliall fit in my cave in the field of the fun. The
blaft will ruftle in my trees, and I fliall think it is Cuthona's voice.
But fhe is diftant far, in the halls of the mighty Conlath.
* Cuthona, ibe mournful found of the found of the waves ; her name in tradi*
i{.avei ; a poetical name given her by tion is Gorm-huil, the blue-e^ed maid,
Oflian, on acount of her mourning to the
A. Oh!