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FIOXXGHAL.
Thuit air cùl aonaich nan toirm,
Mar lasair an fbraoich 's a' bheiuu,
445 'N uair shiiibhlas an fballosg tro' "n oidbcli'.
Gun soills' acli na bheir i fhein,
'S a' ghaotli 'n a deigh 's i 'fuaini.
« Hard-fouglit
fight ; lit.
fight or battle
of feats.
* In might ;
le fraoeh — lit.
loitk liaitfier
— as formerly
explainej,
signifying
"wrath ; "
but here
"might " ap-
pears to be
the preferable
rendering.
Air taobli sruth fo cholAar a' taomadli
Tha 'thalla 'n carraig nan cos,
450 'Us aon chraobh gu cròm ag aomadh,
'S an iar-ghaoth 'beucail gu mòr
Ei agliaidh nan scòrr 's nan earn.
'An so shuidh àrd cheannard na h-Eiiiim,
Mac Slieuma nan slige fial.
455 Bha 'smaoiuteau air còmlirag nan cloas,"
Na deoir a' taomadh o 'ghruaidh.
Bha bròn air mu chall a mheas —
Gaisgeacli àrd mhisneach nam buadb.
A Bbràigb-gbeal, tba tbu fada tball ;
460 Cba thog tbu 's an am an laocb ;
Faiceadb e do tblàtli-clirutb mall,
'S tbig 'anam a nail le fraoeh ; *
Bi 'dh 'smaointcau air a ehliu fein,
'S air Deò-greiue 'gbluais a run.
4G5 Co 'tha 'tighin h eiabli na li-aois ?
Co, ach gaisgeaeli nach faniu dan ?
pillar.s of the fire of night, when winds pursue them over the moun-
tain, and the flaming lieatli resounds ! JJeside a stream of roaring
foam, his cave is in a rock. One tree bends aliove it ; the nisliing
winds eclio against its sides. Here rests the chief of Erin, tlie son
of generous 8cmo. His thoughts are on llie haltli's lie lost ; the

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Volume 2
DescriptionVolume II of 'Poems of Ossian : in the original Gaelic with a literal translation into English and a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems / by the Archibald Clerk ; together with the English translation by Macpherson'.
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Poems of Ossian
Description" ... in the original Gaelic with a literal translation into English and a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems by the Archibald Clerk ; together with the English translation by Macpherson."
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