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C R O M A:
A P O E M*.
T was the voice of my love ! few are his vifits to the dreams of
Malvina ! Open your airy halls, ye fathers of mighty Tofcar.
Unfold .the gates of your clouds ; the ftcps of Malvina's departure
are near. I have heard a voice in my dream. I feel the fluttering
of my foul. Why didft thou come, O blaft, from the dark-rolling
of the lake ? Thy ruftling wing was in the trees, the dream of Mal-
vina departed. But flie beheld her love, when his robe of mift
flew on the wind ; the beam of the fun was on his fkirts, they glit-
tered like the gold of the flranger. It was the voice of my love-!
few are his vilits to my dreams !
* Malvina the daughter of Tofcar is country fubjeft to Crothar, but which he
overheard by Offiaii lamentinji the death held of Arthor Artho, who was, at the
ofOfcar her lover. Offian, to divert her time, fupreme king of Ireland,
grief, relates his own afiions in an ex, edi- Crothar being, on account of his age
tion which he undertook, at Fingal's com- and blindnefs, unfit for a£tion, fent for
mand, to aid Crothar the petty king of aid to Fingal king of Scotland ; who
Croma, a country in Ireland, againft Roth- ordered hi5 fon Oflian to the relief of
mar who invaded his dominions. The Crothar. But before his arrival Fovar-
ftory is delivered down thus in tradition, gormo, the fon of Crothar, attacking Roth-
Crotbarking of Croma being blind with mar, w^is flain hiinfclf, and his forces to-
age, and his fon too young for the field, tally defeated. Offian renewed the war ;
Rothmar the chief of Tromlo refolved to came to battle, killed Rothmar, and rout-
avail himfelf of the opportunity offered of ed his army. Croma being thus delivered
annexing the dominions of Crothar to his of its enemies, OlTian returned to Scot-
own, He accordingly marthed into the land.
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