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162 FINGAL.
" Strange story waits," he said, " thine ear.
Now sweet one, smile in beauty's pride ;
That robe of sorrow cast aside,
Waste not that precious pearly tear. —
Thy chariot stays to bear thee home. —
How bright ascends Carthollan's dome."
She cast aside the robe of woe,
Delight beam'd sparkling from her eye,
And o'er her cheek th' illum'ning glow
Of joy shed beauty's brilliant dye. —
She turn'd t' ascend the seat of war,
The battle- throne of kings.
" For thee," he said, " more suited car
The grateful Feargus brings."
A beauteous car for her he brought
Of iv'ry, fashioned as a throne,
" Strange story waits," he said, " thine ear.
Now sweet one, smile in beauty's pride ;
That robe of sorrow cast aside,
Waste not that precious pearly tear. —
Thy chariot stays to bear thee home. —
How bright ascends Carthollan's dome."
She cast aside the robe of woe,
Delight beam'd sparkling from her eye,
And o'er her cheek th' illum'ning glow
Of joy shed beauty's brilliant dye. —
She turn'd t' ascend the seat of war,
The battle- throne of kings.
" For thee," he said, " more suited car
The grateful Feargus brings."
A beauteous car for her he brought
Of iv'ry, fashioned as a throne,
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Fingal > (176) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77601124 |
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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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