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Swiftly pouring on the sands of Mora,
Darkly came Swaran with his hosts,
And silently over Lena of cairns ;
Cold spectres are shrieking afar :
120 The fire of death is seen on Lora."
" From his sleep I will rouse the strong one.
Who smiles amid crashing blows.
He is like to the sun in heaven,
To whom the stormy tempest yields."
125 The prince awoke from his dream.
And leaned on the shield of Treunmor —
The great broad shield of dusky shades,
AVhich his father had raised on the hill of hosts.
To the hero in his sleep there came
130 Agandecca, in sjsirit-form.
She came from ocean wide ;
Pale was her visage in his view :
Slow, and alone, (she) passed from the wave,
Dark tears fast streaming down her cheek.
135 Half-seen, she raised her hand from her robe —
Her robe of the cloud of the desert ;
She raised her hand above the chief of men,
(And) turned her eyes away in silence.
" Wherefore in tears, daughter of Starno 1 "
140 Said Fingal, with labouring breath ;
Agandecca. She came from the way of the ocean. She slowly,
lonely, moved over Lena. Her face was pale like the mist of
Cromla : dark were the tears of her cheek. She often raised her
dim hand from her robe — her robe which was of the clouds of the
desert ; she raised her dim hand over Fingal, and turned away her
silent eyes ! " Why weeps the daughter of Starno Ì " said Fingal,
with a sigh ; " wliy is tliy face so pale, fair wanderer of the clouds?"
DUAN IV.
Swaran's army
is heard ap-
proaching,
and Oscar
hastens to
awaken Fin-
gal.
Agandecca
had come to
him in a
dream,
uttering no