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Book II.] T R M O R A. 103
* Forth with the roar of all their hundred tril)cs.
* Loud as the desert-streams, they came. — But firm 105
* As durant adamant, before them jstood
' Undaunted Conar. Soon, on every side
* Their broken ranks they roU'd. Yet, stubborn still,
* Thev oft' return'd ; and in fierce battle fell
* The sons of Ullin. Then, amidst the tombs 110
* Of his fall'n warriors, stood the potent king,
* And darkly bent in gri(-'f his mournful face.
* \\'ith shaded soul wrapt in itst'lf, this chief,
* \Vhere he must shortly fall, oft' mark'd the place;
* When, in his strength, (on this disaster dire) 115
* Trathal, the chief of cloudy Morven, came,
* >s'or came alone: for, aidant at his side,
* Great Colgar stood, his mighly M'arlike son ;
' Colgar the brave, sprung from the noble blood,
* That in white-bosom'd Solin-corma flow'd. 120
* As from the halls, where pealing thunders roll,
' Trenmor descends in robes of meteors made,
* Before him pouring o'er the troubled sea
* Tlie turbid storm: so down to battle came
i ' Brave Colgar, wastive of the echoing field. 12^
* Exulting o'er the hero's matchless feats
* The father stood : but soon an arrow came,
* His tomb without a tear was rais'd. The king
! * Was to revenge his son. — In battle dire
' Forward in brightness was the royal course, 130
* Till Bolga yielded at her sounding streams,
* When smiling peace returned to the land,
* And his blue waves the king to Morven bore:
* Then, on the fall of his brave son he thought,
* And pour'd the silent tear. Thrice did the bards, 135
' Where hoarsely echoes huge Furmono's cave,