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jTingal:
AN ANCIENT EPIC POEM.
ARGITMENT.
NIGHT comes on. Fingal gives a least to liis army, at which Swsran is pre-
sent. The king commands Ullin, liis batd, to give the song of peace; a
custom always observed at the end of a war. Ullin relates the actions of
Trentuor, great grandfather to fingal, in Scandinavia, and his marriage
with Inibaca, the daughter of a king of Lochlin, who was ancestor to Swaran ;
which consideration, together with his being brother to Agandecca, with
whom lingal was in love in his youth, induced the king to release him, and
permit him to return, with the remnant of his army into Lochlin, upon his
promise of never reluming to Ireland in a hostile manner. The night is
spent in settling Swaran's departure, in songs of bards ; and in a conversa-
tion, in which the story of Clnuual is introduced by Tingal. Morning comes.
Swaran departs. Fingal goes on a hunting party, and finding Cuchulliii in
the cave of Tura, comforts him, and sets sail the next day, for Scotland;
which concludes the poem.
BOOK VI.
THE sable clouds of night come rolling down
And on the dark-brown steep of Cromla rest.
The northern stars o'er Ullin's rolling waves
Emit their heads of fire through fleeting mist.
A distant wind roars in the shady wood, 5
But dark and silent is the plain of death.
Yet, on the dark'ning Lena, in my ears
The tuneful voice of Carril still arose.
Of the companions of our youthful days
And times now past ; when we, on Lego's banks 10
Assembling, held the joys of shells, he sung;