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4!AJ<T0 VI. FINGAL.
While, from the outskirts of the plain
A messenger approach'd the king-. —
" Our sentinels," he said, " detain,
And hitherward for question bring,
Oh sov'reign, two detected spies ;
Muffled the one in close disguise,
The other arm'd, a warrior young.
Of haughty mien and scornful tongue."
" Then hither be their conduct sped,"
Recov'ring voice, the king exclaimM.
And straightway to his presence led.
Young Feargus stands with the unnam'd.
The stranger of the hagard mien ;
Still, save his gloomy brow unseen.
No look tow'rds him the sov'reign threw,
But gaz'd with look of changeful hue.
And grimly smil'd as he beheld
Within the fell grasp of his power,
His only ever-dreaded foe.
While, from the outskirts of the plain
A messenger approach'd the king-. —
" Our sentinels," he said, " detain,
And hitherward for question bring,
Oh sov'reign, two detected spies ;
Muffled the one in close disguise,
The other arm'd, a warrior young.
Of haughty mien and scornful tongue."
" Then hither be their conduct sped,"
Recov'ring voice, the king exclaimM.
And straightway to his presence led.
Young Feargus stands with the unnam'd.
The stranger of the hagard mien ;
Still, save his gloomy brow unseen.
No look tow'rds him the sov'reign threw,
But gaz'd with look of changeful hue.
And grimly smil'd as he beheld
Within the fell grasp of his power,
His only ever-dreaded foe.
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77600798 |
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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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