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A DRAMATIC POEM. 269
hands shall grow red in the blood of Lochlin.
Roll, streamy Carun, roll in joy, the sons of
battle fled!
MELILCOMA.
Descend, ye light mists from high ! Ye
moon-beams, lift her soul ! Pale lies the maid
at the rock ! Comala is no more !
FINGAL.
Is the daughter of Sarno dead ; the white-
bosomed maid of my love ? Meet me, Comala,
on my heaths, when I sit alone at the streams
of my hills !
HIDALLAX.
Ceased the voice of the huntress of Ardven ?
Why did I trouble the soul of the maid ? When
shall I see thee, with joy, in the chase of the
dark-brown hinds?
FINGAL.
Youth of the gloomy brow! no more shalt
thou feast in my halls. Thou shalt not pursue
my chase, my foes shall not fall by thy ' sword.
Lead me to the place of her rest, that I may
1 The sequel of the story of Hidallaii is introduced in an-
other poem.
hands shall grow red in the blood of Lochlin.
Roll, streamy Carun, roll in joy, the sons of
battle fled!
MELILCOMA.
Descend, ye light mists from high ! Ye
moon-beams, lift her soul ! Pale lies the maid
at the rock ! Comala is no more !
FINGAL.
Is the daughter of Sarno dead ; the white-
bosomed maid of my love ? Meet me, Comala,
on my heaths, when I sit alone at the streams
of my hills !
HIDALLAX.
Ceased the voice of the huntress of Ardven ?
Why did I trouble the soul of the maid ? When
shall I see thee, with joy, in the chase of the
dark-brown hinds?
FINGAL.
Youth of the gloomy brow! no more shalt
thou feast in my halls. Thou shalt not pursue
my chase, my foes shall not fall by thy ' sword.
Lead me to the place of her rest, that I may
1 The sequel of the story of Hidallaii is introduced in an-
other poem.
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Poems of Ossian > Volume 1 > (287) |
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| Description | Volume the first. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.88 |
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| Description | "Translated by James Macpherson ; to which are prefixed dissertations of the aera and poems of Ossian". (Oss.86 unopened.) |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.86-89 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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