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voice greet thine ear. Silent is he in
the deep, unhappy daughter of Rey-
aiold !
I will fit by the ftream of the plain.
Ye rocks ! hang over my head. Hear
my voice, ye trees ! as ye bend on the
fliaggy hill. My voice fhall preferve
the praife of him, the hope of the
ifles ,

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Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic [sic] or Erse language
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Description	Edinburgh: 1760.
Shelfmark	Oss.1
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1760 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place created]
Subject / content:	Poetry Scottish Gaelic language Irish language Translations
Person / organisation:	Hamilton and Balfour (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Publisher] MacPherson, James, 1736-1796 [Author] Graham, Robert Maxtone, 1931 [Former owner] Ossian, active 3rd century [Subject of text]
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Ossian Collection
Description	Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.

Early Gaelic Book Collections
Description	Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.