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^o8 F I N G A L. Book VI,
And fighing faid : No more ilialt thou awake,
-20 The joyful Feaft of Cromla to partake !
The Hand of Time will foon thy Tomb deface,
And rank luxuriant Grafs conceal the Place !
The Sons of feeble Men will pafs it by.
Nor know that there forgot the Mighty lie.
425 Then to his Sons ~- Ye Children of my Might,
And Gaul, Commander of the Swords in Fight !
Come, let us now to Turds Cave repair,
Where Erin\ Chief remains abforpt in Care.
Are yonder Turds Walls before our Eyes,
430 That gray, and lonely on the Heath arife ?
The King of Shells avoids the Sight of Men,
While fad, and defolate his Halls are feen.
Hafte!
plifhments a Perfon could poiTcfs. Nor was that Manner of Thinking pe-
culiar to the ancient Caledonians : Homer feldom forgets to mark out this
charafteriftical Quality of his Hero : And another eminent Poet, in his
Lamentations over Saul and "Jonathan^ gives a particular Praife to thofe
Princes, on Account of their Swiftnefs. " Saul and Jonathan lovely, and
comely in their Life, even in Deatii they were not divided : they were
fvvifter than Eagles, ftronger than Lions.''