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152 The DEATH of CUCHULLIN.
Carril, faid the king in fecret, the firength of Cuchullin fails.
My days are with the years that are paft : and no morning of mine
fhall arife. — They fliall feek me at Teniora, but I fliall not be found.
Ccrmac will wec-o in his hall, and fay, " Where is Tura's cliief r"
— But my name is renowned ! my fame in the fong of bards.
The youth will fay in fecret, O let me die as Cuchullin died; renown
cloathed him like a robe ; and the light of his fame is great. Draw
the arrow from my fide ; and lay Cuchullin beneath that oak. Place
the fliield of Caithbat near, that they may behold me amidfl: the
arms of my fathers. —
And is the fon of Semo fallen *, faid Carril with a figh ?— —
Mournful are Tura's walls; and forrow dwells at Dunfcaich. — Thy
fpoufe is left alone in her youth, the fon -f of thy love is alone. —
He fluU come to Bragela, and afk her why (he weeps. — He (hall
lift his eyes to the wall, and fee his father's fword. — Whofe fword is
that ? he will fay : and the foul of his mother is fad. Who is that,
like the hart of the defart, in the murmur of his courfc ? — His eye-s
look wildly round in fearch of his friend. Connal, fon of Colgar,
where haft thou been, when the mighty fell ? Did the feas of
Togorma roll round thee ? Was the wind of the fouth in thy fails ?
* The Irifti hiftorians have placed Cu- give him a great character for his wifdom
chullin in the tirft century. — The tranflator and valour.
has given his reafons for fixing him in the f Conloch, who was afterwards very
third, in the differtation which is prefixed famous for his great exploits in Ireland.
to this colleiflion. In other particulars He was fo remarkable for his dexterity in
the accounts of Keating and O'Flaherty handling the iavelin, that when a good
coincide pretty nearly with Offnn's poems, markfnian is defcribed, it has pafled into a
and the traditions of the Highlands and proverb, in the north of Scotland, He is
Ifles. They fay that he was killed in the pruning as the arm of Conloch.
twcnty-feventh year of his age, and they
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