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CANTO V. FINGAL. 125
Exclaim the chiefs, " we to the plain,
But not to strengthen Tarah's line ;
A lovelier cause our swords maintain —
Sweet princess of Emania — thine."
So spake the chiefs ; the vassals flew.
Sprang to their boat each gallant crew ;
The white sails glitter to the moon,
The foam flies sparkling from the oar,
'Ere night had glided to her noon,
Deep slumb'rj silence wrapt Lough More,
Save when the watch word, loud and shrill,
Awoke wild echo from the hill.
END OP CANTO V.
Exclaim the chiefs, " we to the plain,
But not to strengthen Tarah's line ;
A lovelier cause our swords maintain —
Sweet princess of Emania — thine."
So spake the chiefs ; the vassals flew.
Sprang to their boat each gallant crew ;
The white sails glitter to the moon,
The foam flies sparkling from the oar,
'Ere night had glided to her noon,
Deep slumb'rj silence wrapt Lough More,
Save when the watch word, loud and shrill,
Awoke wild echo from the hill.
END OP CANTO V.
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77600630 |
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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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