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152 FINGAL canto
The hills, the vales, the mountains round
Caught, ai)d loud thundVing swell'd the sound
It ceas'd ; then kneeling spake Fingal.
'* Son of the mighty, at thy feet
Behold," he said, " aloud doth call
The guilt of blood for judgment meet;
Waiting the sentence of thine ire.
There lie the murd'rers of thy sire."
Then spake the youthful king and said,
" 111 omen to the land 'twould be.
If our first act were blood to shed ;
Yet may the guilty not go free."
" The royal will Fingal makes known,"
The chief then shouted, " Innismone,
Hold thou these captives in thy barge
With strictest watch, in sternest charge,
The hills, the vales, the mountains round
Caught, ai)d loud thundVing swell'd the sound
It ceas'd ; then kneeling spake Fingal.
'* Son of the mighty, at thy feet
Behold," he said, " aloud doth call
The guilt of blood for judgment meet;
Waiting the sentence of thine ire.
There lie the murd'rers of thy sire."
Then spake the youthful king and said,
" 111 omen to the land 'twould be.
If our first act were blood to shed ;
Yet may the guilty not go free."
" The royal will Fingal makes known,"
The chief then shouted, " Innismone,
Hold thou these captives in thy barge
With strictest watch, in sternest charge,
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77601014 |
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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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