Ossian Collection > Fingal, an ancient epic poem

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and fpread their gray (kirts on the wind . Why
doll thou delay thy coming, fon of the generous
Semo? — Four times has autumn returned with
its winds, and raifed the Teas of Togorma *, fince
thou haft been in the roar of battles, and Bragela
diiknt far. — Hills of the ifle of mift ! when will
ye anhver to his hounds? — But ye are dark in
your clouds, and fad Bragela calls in vain. Night
comes rolling down : the face of ocean fails. The «
heath-cock's head is beneath his wing : the hind
lieeps with the hart of the defart. They fhall
rife with the morning's light, and feed on the •
mcfiTy ftream. But my tears return with the fun,
my fighs come on with the night. When wilt
ihou come in thine arms, O chief of mofly Tura ?
Pleasant is thy voice in Ollian's ear, daugh-
ter of car-borne Sorglan ! But retire to the hall
of iliells ; to the beam of the burning oak. — At-
tend to the murmur of the fea : it rolls at Dun-
fcaich's v.'alls : let fleep defcend on thy blue eyes, ■
and the hero come to thy dreams.
CucHULLiN fits at Lego's lake, at the dark
rolling of waters. Night is around the hero; and
his thoufands fpread on the heath : a hundred oaks
burn in the midft, the feafl of fhells is fmoking
v/ide.
The fragments that remain of this poem are animated
with the genuine f irit ot" Oilian -, fo that there can be no
doubt that it was of his compofition.
* Togorma, t e. The ifianA of blue nvaves, one cf the
Hebrides, was lubjeft to Coiinal, the fon of Caithbat,
Cuchullm's friend. Ke is fonietimes called the fon of
Colgsr, from one cf that name who was the foun^'er of
the fainily. Connal, a few days before the news of Tor-
lath's revolt came to Temora, had failed to Togorma,
his native ifle ; where he was detained by contrary winds
during the war in which Cuchullin was lulled.