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When young Fillan trims bis bow —
That hunter is not on the hill,
Close-pressing on the bounding stag.
70 AVherefore is the shield-breaking race
Tlius far away in darkness ?
When our steps ascended to the king,
His eyes were turned to the hill of Mora ;
His tears in close succession fell,
75 For the blue-eyed youth of generous bearing :
(But) brightness banished all his gloom
In presence of the broad shields of war.
" See Cromal of wooded rocks,
The dwelling of the wind, with heads in mist ;
80 Behind them, winding through the glen.
Is Lava of clear streams, and deer.
A cave is in the brown face of the cliff.
On the height the strong wing of the eagle ;
Before it the dark spreading of oaks,
85 Which sound to the mountain-wind of Cluno :
There is the youth of dark-brown hair —
Son of Cairbar of blue eyes,
High king of broad shields and heroes.
From Ullin of deer and wide plains.
90 He listens to the voice of grey-haired C'ondan,
Bending down in light bedimmed ;
Tliey ap-
proach, and
he orders
Gaul, Ueniiid
and Carul the
bard, to gr
the hill (.f
Croniar,
to
where j'oung
Artho, the
lawful king
of Ullin,
was hiding
himself from
Ca-nior, who
had usurjied
the throne.
" Crommal with woody rocks and misty top, the field of winds,
pours forth to the sight hiue Liihar's streamy roar. Behind it rolls
clear-winding Lavath, in the still vale of deer. A cave is dark in a
rock ; ahove it strong-winged eagles dwell ; broad-headed oaks before
it sound in Cluna's wind. "Within, in his locks of youth, is Ferad-
artho, blue-eyed king, the son of broad-shielded Cairbar, from Ullin
of the roes. He listens to the voice of Condan, as grey ho bends in