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I30 F I N G A L. Book IL
44.0 In Miiri's Hall, drawn by the common Fame
Of UiJIers School, to learn the Sword he came.
'Twas there the youthful Stranger firft I knew,
And our Acquaintance foon to Friendfliip grew :
Together at the Chace we pafs'd the Day,
445 And in the Heath at Night together lay.
Cairbar was now of UlUn?> Plains pofTeft,
With num'rous Droves of lowing Cattle blefl :
Deugala was his Spoufe, who, with the Light
Of Beauty cover'd, fhone divinely bright ;
450 But then her Heart was vain, the Houfe of Pride,
A Vice to Beauty ever near allied.
She lov'd with Ardour Dammans (lately Son,
Who in the Bloom of Youth a Sun-beam flione :
Her
V. 448. TFbo idth the Light Of Beauty cover'd.] Befides formal Compa-
rilbns, the Poetry of OJian is embellifhed with many of thefe beautiful
Metaphors. This Mode of ExprefTion, which fiipprcfles the Mark of
Comparifon, and fubftitutes a figured Defcription in the Room of the
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