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foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two stars of
light; her face was heaven's bow in showers; her dark
hiiir riov/ed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou
wcrt thj dweller of souls, wliite-handed Strina-dona !
Col-gorm ca:ne m his ship, and Corcul-suran, king of
shells. The orothers came, from I-thorno, to woo die
sun-beam of Tor-moth's Isle. She saw them in their e-
chomgsteel. Her soul was fixedon blue-eyed Col-gorm.
Ul-lochhn's'' nightly eye looked in, and saw the tossing
arms of Strina-dona.
Wrathful the brothers frowned. Their flaming eyes
in silence met. Tiiey turned away. T'hey struck their
sliields. Tneir hands were trembling on their swords.
They rushed into the strife of' heroes, for long-haired
Strina-dona.
Corcul-suran fell in blood. On his isle, raged the
strength of his father. He turned Col-gorm from l-
thorno, to wander on all the winds. In Crathmo-crau-
lo's rocky field, he dwelt, by a foreign stream. Nor
darkened the king alone, that beam of light was near,
the daughter of echoing Tormoth, white-armed Strina-
dona i.
f Ul-lochlin, tlie guide to Lochlin; the name of a star.
g The continuation of this epi-ode is juit now in my hands: but
the language is so dilTercnt from, and tlic ideas so unworthy of Ossiaa
tUat 1 have rejected it, as an intcrpokiion by a modern batd.