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Tha ceumna nan òigli,
Uigh lamh-gheal nan teiul
'S nam boglia cròm 's a' mhagli,
335 'Togail an gorm sluil tlath
O'n leadan bàrr-bhuidh air sliabli nam flatli
Ni bheil ceumna Lear-thonu 's a' blieinu,
Ceanu Innis nan geug uaine.
Tha e 'togail dubh dliarach air tonn
340 'An camas Chliiba nan iomadh stuadli,
'N dubh-dbaracli a bbuain e o Lùmou
Gu siubbal air agbaidh a' cbuain.
Tbionndaidh òigbe 'n sfiilean tlàth
O'n rigb mu -n tuiteadb e sios :
345 Ni 'm facas leo riamb an long,
Ciar mbarcacb a' cbuain mbòir.
" Moorcfl the
ship; lit.
diveU the ship.
" Gblaodb a nis an r\gb a' gbaotli
'Measg ceo na mara glais.
Dh'eiricb Innis-fàil gu gorm.
350 Tbuit, gu dian, oidbcbe nam fras ;
Bbuail eagal clann Bbolga g-u luatb,
Gblau neoil o Tbonn-tbeiue nan stuadb
'An camas Cbùlbeinn' db'àitich an long/
Far am freagradb a' cboillc do tbonn :
355 Bu cliopacb an sin an srutb,
cbarraig Dubb-uamba nan cos,
aro the steps of maids ; the â– white-anncd daughters of tlio how :
they lift their bhie eyes to the hill from amidst their wandering
locks. Not there is the stride of Larthon, chief of Inis-hunn. He
mounts the wave on his own dark oak m Cluba's ridgy bay ; that
oak which he cut from Lumon to hound along the sea. I'lic maids
turn their eyes away, lest the king should be lowly laiil ; inv never

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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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DescriptionSelected 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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