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Book III. F I N G A L. 177
And fought its Womb. — The Spirit put to Flight,
215 Shot up in Air, and peaceful left the Night.
The Moon look'd forth, the Stars return'd again,
And Cormar unmolefted plough'd the Main.
Such was the Father of our ancient Line,
Like him in Peril Cahnar loves to fhine :
220 Who dares in Danger, always beft fucceeds,
For Danger from the lifted Sword recedes.
I fay not this our Heroes to upbraid,
What Courage could has bravely been ellay'd.
Retire then now from Lenas fatal Plain,
225 And facrifice no more of Blood in vain :
But
V. 224. Retire then now, Csfr.] Calmar, who was the chief Promoter
of the War, fenfible at length of the ill Confequence of fuch Meafures,
advifes his Countrymen to retire, although he himfelf refolved not to fur^
vive the public Calamities, of which he had been the principal Occafion.^
He feems to have been a Man of a high Spirit, and warmly attached to the
Interefts of Cormac ; the more to be wondered at, as he was defcended of
the Fir-bolg, the declared Enemies of the Pofterity of Conor. Calmar was
the only Chief of that Race of People, who joined the Cael, or Trijb
Caledonians, during the Invafion of Swaran. Upon which Account he
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