Ossian Collection > Morison's edition of the Poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal

T E M O R A :
AN EPIC POEM.
THE ARGUMENT.
This book begins, about the middle of the third night froirf
the opening of the poem. The poet defcribes a kind o^
inift, \i hich rofe, by night, from the lake of Lego, and
was the ufual refidence of the fouls of the dead, durinej
the interval between their deceafe and the funeral fone
The appearance of the ghoft of Fillan above the cave
where his body lay. His toice comes to Fingal, on the
rock of Cormul. The king ftrikes the iliield of Tren-
mor, v.hich was an infallible fign of his appearing irt
arms himfelf. The extraordinary efFeft of the found of -
the Ihicld. Sul-malla, flailing from fleep, awakes Cath-
inor. Their atfeding difcourfe. She infifts with him, to'
fue for peace ; h* refolves to continue the war. He di-'
reds her to retire to the neighbouring valley of Lona,
which was the refidence of an old Druid, until the bat-
tle of the next day fFiould be over. He awakes his army
with the found of his fhield. The (hield defcribed. Fo-
nar, the bard, at the defire of Cathmor, relates the firft
fettlement of the Fir-bolg in Ireland, under their leader
Larthou. Morning comes; Sul-malla retires to the val«
ley of Lona. A lyric fong concludes the book.
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BOOK VII.
ROM the wood -flcirted ivatcrs of Lego, afcend,
at times, gray-bofomed mlfts,, %vhen the gates
of