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194 CARRIC-THURA:
found of the harps of Selma : let the beam fpread in the hall, the
king of fhells is returned ! The ftrife of Crona * is paft, like founds
that are no more : raife the fong, O bards, the king is returned, with
his fame !
Such was the fong of Ullin, when Fingal returned from battle :
when he returned in the fair blufhing of youth ; with all his heavy
locks. His blue arms were on the hero j like a gray cloud on the
fun, when he moves in his robes of mill:, and ihews but half his
beams. His heroes follow the king : the feaft of Ihells is fpread.
Fingal turns to his bards, and bids the fong to rife.
Voices of ecchoing Cona ! he faid, O bards of other times ! Ye,
on whofe fouls the blue hofts of our fathers rife ! ftrike the harp in
my hall ; and let Fingal hear the fong. Pleafant is the joy of grief!
it is like the fhower of fpring, when it foftens the branch of the
oak, and the young leaf lifts its green head. Sing on, O bards, to-
morrow we lift the fail. My blue courfe is through the ocean,
to Carric-thura's walls; the molly walls of Sarno, where Co-
mala dwelt. There the noble CathuUa, fpreads the feafl: of Ihells.
The boars of his woods are many, and the found of the chace
fhall arife.
Cronnan -f-, fon of the fong! faid Ullin, MInona, graceful at
the harp ! raife the fong of Shilric, to pleafe the king of Morven. Let
* O/Kan has celebrated the77r//# a/ C?o- Cronnan and Minona, whofe very names
na, in a particular poem. This poem is denote that they were fingers, who per-
conne£led with it, but it was impoflible for formed in public. Croiuian fignifies a
the tranflator to procure that part which mournful found, Minona, or Min-'6nn,foft
relates to Crona, with any degree of purity, air. All the dramatic poems of Offian
t One {bould think that the parts of appear to have been prefented before Fin-
Shilxic and Vinvela were reprefented by gal, upon folemn occafions.
Vinvela