Ossian Collection > Poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal > Volume 1

THE
BATTLE OF LOR A:
A POEM.
THE ARGUMENT.
fjngal, on his return from Ireland, after he liad expelled Swaran from that kin
doni, niV.e :i feafl to ali his heroes: he forgDt to invite Ma-rnijnan and Aldfi, i\<
neg'.eci ■ cud -.vent over •"".. • ' •' ; i. t!
declared enemy otFi!.(-:.; „:;
found itK-ans to efcape * ' .. .in
on :hc «eairnt(iaa. lirr. n i, . •,,;:
t'-e foil of Miirni, after hi.- hr..; rejfc:e<: u-. u:-. ,.f pcic- .ire cu hin- hv f;. -al. 1
this v.ar A!di) fell in a Ungle Losi.bat, by the hands of his rival Erragon ; ar
th; uufoitunatie Lornia afierwards died of grief.
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ON- of the diftant Ir.r.d, v/ho dwellcfl in the fccret
cell ! do I hear tlt.e founds of thy grove ? or is it the
vcicc oithy fongs ? The torrent was loud in my ear,
but I h.eavd a tuneful voice ; doil thou praife the cuic'S
of tliy land ; or the fpirlis f of the wind ! But, Icnely
dv.ciler of tlie rocks ! look over that heathy pbhi :
tlicu fccll gi-een toiribs, v/ith their rank, whiUHng grafs ;
with their f^ones of moily heads : thou fceft thtn:, fon
of tiie reck ; but Cfiian's eyes have failed.
A mountain-ftream coines roailng down ancT fcn('s
its V. aters round a green hill : four moiTy ftcncs, in
the luidft of withered gra-s, rc.ir their heads on ll:e
top : two trees which the fiornis have bent, (prcad tl^eir
v.hifiling branches arrund. This is thy dwc'ling, Er-
ragon |j ; this thy narrow l.oufe : tlie found of tliy il^cUs
has been long forgot in Sora : and thy fhicld is Ik-c -me
dark in thv hall. Erraircn, king of f.iips ! chief of di-
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i The imet all.ides to the rrlirimis hvir.ns of the Cu^df«!s.
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