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Book II. AN Eric POEM. las
from his side ; and placed it gleaming in mv hand. He
placed it, in my hand, with siglis, and, silent, strode
awciy. Mine eyes followed his departure. He dimly
gleamed, like the form of a ghost, which meets a tra-
veller by night, on the dark-skirted heath. His words
are darlc like songs of old : v^'ith morning strides the
unfinished shade away..
Who » comes from Lubar's vale ? From the folds
of tlie morning mist ? The drops of heaven are on hi?
head. His steps are in the paths of the sad. It is Car-
rii of other times. He comes from Tiija's silent cave.
I behold it dark in the rock, through the thin folds of
mist. There, perhaps, Cucliullin sits, on tlie blast
Which bends its trees. Pleasant is tlie song of tiie
morning from the bard of Erin !
*' The waves crowd away for fear : they hear the
;ound of thy coming forth, O sun ! Terrible is thy
beauty, son of heaven, when death is folded in thy
locks ; when thou rollest thy vapours before thee, over
the blasted host. But pleasant is thy beam to the hunt-
er, sitting by the rock in a s^orm, when thou looke<!t
from thy parted cloud, and brightenest his dewy locks ;
he looks down on the streamy vale, and beholds the
descent of roes. How long shalt thou rise on v/ar, and
roll, a bloody shield, throvigh heaven ? I see the deaihs
of heroes dark-wind ering over thy face V
" Why wander the words of Carrii ? Does the sun
of lieaven mourn ? He is unstained in his course^ ever
rejoicing in his fce. Roil on, thou careless light ;
thou too, perhaps, must fall. Thy dun robe k may
seize thee, struggling, in thy sky.
i The morninjj of the second day, f'-om the openlr.g »f the poena,
comes on. After the deatli of Cuchuihn, Carnl the son of Kinfcna,
his bard, rcilr^d to the cave of Tura, whioli was ir. the neiphbou--
hood of Moi ieaa, the scif:ne of the poem of Teinora. His casual ap-
pearance i.ere enables Ossian to fuiftl inmediately the proiriac ijc
hnd made to CathmOr, of causing tic fuusral su.ig to be pronounc-"!
over the tomb of Calrbar. This bcoi only takes up the space cf 3
few hours.
k By the duti ro1»e or the sur, U pro^-x'Jy rrca^r; an eclirSi,
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