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Book VI. F I N G A L. 399
Like him there have been many overthrown,
Who after like the Sun of Heav'n have fhone.
Great Son of Starno ! whofe imperial Sway
Extends o'er Lochli?tj give thy Griefs away.
335 The Brave fometimes may be compelFd to bend.
But Virtue always conquers in the End.
The Sun of Heav'n, thus clouded for a Space,
To fouthern Regions flies, and hides his Face ;
But, burfting forth in Majefty ferene;
340 Soon fmiles upon the Hills of Grafs again.
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V. 333. Great Son <?/ Starno!] Fingal here addrefles himfelf to Swaran,
whofe Grief, as well as Cuthullin^s, proceeded from having been defeated.
What therefore was faid to one, was equally fuitable to the other. Befides,
the Story of Grumal, though in its general Moral applicable to both, in
fome Circumftances agrees better with the Skusition of Sivaran ; for that
Prince, like S-waran, had unjuftly attacked the Territories of another ;
like him, he was conquered and taken Prifoner. But by fupporting his
Misfortunes with Courage, he afterwards proved fuccefsful, and became
worthy of being celebrated, in the Songs of the Bards, among the greatefl:
Heroes of Antiquity. His Patience in fuffering, is what Fingal viou\d point
out, both to Swaran and Cuthtdlin, as the proper Pattern of their Imitation.
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