Ossian Collection > Original collection of the poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and other bards, who flourished in the same age

OINA-MORUL.
Cjie ac0ument.
Slal-orchol, on account of some family feuds, refusing to give hia
daughter in marriage to Ton-Thormod, the latter, in revenge, lays
■waste Iiis lands. Fingal sends Ossian to the assistance of Mal-orchol,
who offers him his daughter, but she discovering a prior attachment to
Ton-Thormod, he generously surrenders her to that chief, and brings
about a reconciliation between him and the father. The poem begin-s
with an address to IVIalvina.
As over Larmon's lofty hills of grass,
In Spring, bright gleams of genial sun-shine pass;
Successive thus, inspiring warlike lays,
Beam on my soul tlie tales of other clays.
AVhen other bards, forgetful of the strain.
With harps unstrung, the heady goblet drain;
While stretch 'd supine, they sleep at ease prolong;
Oft comes a voice that bids me raise the song.
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