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X04 F I N G A L. Book II.
Then let him with his People plough the Waves,
Or here on iLm« fliall arife their Graves.
210 But never, while this Arm can lift the Sword,
Shall bright Bragela own a foreign Lord ;
Or over Gormal\ lofty Hills of Snow,
Swift-footed Luath chace the bounding Roe.
The Herald then : Vain Ruler of the Car !
215 What will you, madly bent upon a War,
Withftand a Prince, whofe Ships of many Sail,
Would even carry off your Inisfail f
Such is thy Pow'r compar'd to his, whofe Sway
Extends o'er Lochlin^ and the boundlefs Sea.
220 To this the Leader of the Irijh Hoft ;
Your Mafter can of vaft Dominions boafl: :
But yet this trufty Sword, which yields to none,
Shall ftill fupport young Cormac on the Throne,
And