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DUAN II. 'Briseadh, thaom iad sìos o 'lann.
115 Ach thill iadsau minic 'us trie ;
Tliuit, a Slielma, do shlioi'hd am Ijlilr ;
Sheas an righ measg uaighean nan trcun,
'Us 'eudaun fo bheud ri làr :
Thrus 'anam e fèin fo smachd ;
120 Chuir e comhara, 's claeh air sliabli,
Anns an tuiteadh an triath le cliu,
'N uair a thàiuig 'n a neart fo sgeith
Mòr Thrathal o neulaibh Mhòrbheinu,
Bràthaìr Chonair am mòr thrèim.
125 Cha d'thàinig an gaisgeach leis feiu ;
Bha Colgar gun bheud r'a thaobh,
Colgar mac do righ nan lann,
'Us ainnir nam mall rosga eorma.
« "Wasting
ami c.Hisum-
iiig tlu' field.'
The Gaelic
words here
are very
.strong — im-
plying ' ' the
doing away
with," or
"annihilat-
ing," the
field.
"Mar Threumiior 'an truscan dc dhealan
130 A' teurnadh o thalla nan siaii,
Measg torrunu 'cur dòghruinu o tlialamh
Air dubh-dhruim na mara fo nial,
Mar sin a bha Colgar 'an cath
'S e 'caitheadh 's 'cur as an raoin."
135 Mòr solas 'athar fein mu 'n triatli.
Thàinig iuthaidh gu diomhair air treun :
Dh'èii"ich clach dha gun deur air slial)li :
Diolaidh 'n righ a gharlih mliac fein.
rolled on evury side. I>ut often they returned, and the sons of
Selnia fell. The king stood among tlie toniLs of his warriors. He
darkly Lent his mournful face. His soul wits rolh'd into itself, and
ho had marked the place where ho was to fall, when Tratlial came
in his strength, his brother, from cloudy Morven. Nor did he come
alone. Colgar was at his side — Colgai-, the son of the king and of

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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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