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44 FINGAL. cai
Heaven's thunders lose their echoing sound
In bellowings low beneath the ground.
Like the wild ocean's wildest waves,
Toss'd horrible bj wint'rj storms,
Trembling, their pond'rous bulk the graves
Tumultuous heave, and grisly forms
Burst forth, and on the tempest rise,
While each in rage of torture cries,
" Oh dreadful death that never dies."
In countless undistinguish'd shoals
Onward their trackless path they urge,
Pursued by the unceasing scourge
Of angry vengeance ; round them rolls
A flood of fire in billowy swell,
Vast and unquenchable as hell.
In horrid pause the shrieks of woe
Now sink to dumb despair ;
The ghastly hosts make marshall'd show
Wide blazing on the air,
Heaven's thunders lose their echoing sound
In bellowings low beneath the ground.
Like the wild ocean's wildest waves,
Toss'd horrible bj wint'rj storms,
Trembling, their pond'rous bulk the graves
Tumultuous heave, and grisly forms
Burst forth, and on the tempest rise,
While each in rage of torture cries,
" Oh dreadful death that never dies."
In countless undistinguish'd shoals
Onward their trackless path they urge,
Pursued by the unceasing scourge
Of angry vengeance ; round them rolls
A flood of fire in billowy swell,
Vast and unquenchable as hell.
In horrid pause the shrieks of woe
Now sink to dumb despair ;
The ghastly hosts make marshall'd show
Wide blazing on the air,
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77599763 |
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| Description | "a fine-Eirin : a poem, in six cantos : with notes, intended to delineate the manners and state of society of Ancient Ireland." (Imperfect: missing pages 83-94.) |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.99 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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