Ossian Collection > Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic [sic] or Erse language

Derm ID aud l;kur were one: They
reaped the baUlc together. Their
frieiiLinrip was flrong as their fleel ; and
death walked between them to the field.
They came on the foe like two rocks
failing from the brows of Ardven. Their,
fwords were ftained with the blood of
the valiant: warriours fainted at their
names. Who was a match for Ofcur;
but Dermid ? and who for Dermid, but.
Ofcur ?
They killed mighty Dargo in the
field ; Dargo before inviincible. His
daughter was fair as the morn ; mJld
as the beam of night. Her eyes, like
two ftars in a fliower : her breath, the
gale of fpring : her breafts, as the new-
fallen fnow floating on the moving heath.
The warriours fa w her, and loved 5 their
fouls were fi\ed on the maid. Each
loved her, as his fame; each muft pof-
fefs her or die. But her foul was fixed
on