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36 T E M O R A: Book 1.
Haft thou heard of" Semo's fon , the chief of
high Teiiiora ? He might have ireturned with
his fame; for he promifed to return to-night.
My bards wait him with fongs ; my feaft is
fprcad in Temora.
I heard the kir.g in filence. My tears
began to now. I hid them with my aged locks;
but he perceived my grief.
Son of Conachar ! he faid, is the kir.g of
Tura ^) low? Why burfts thy hgh in fecret?
And w^hy defcends the tear? Comes the
car -borne Torlath ? Or the found of the red-
haired Cairbar ? — They come ! — for 1 behold
thy f^rief. Moffy Tura's king is low !
Shall I not rufli to battle? But I cannot
lift the fpear '. — O had mine arm the ftrength
of Cuchuliin , foon would Cairbar fly ; the fa-
me of my fathers would be renewed ; and the
deeds of other times !
He took his bow. The tears flow down ,
from both his fparkling eyes. Grief fad-
dens round : the bards bend forward, from their
hundred
") Cuchuliin is calietl the king of Tura, from a cnftle
of that name on the coaft of Ulfter , where he
(.Iwelt , before he undertook the maiiagemem of
the affairs of Ire^aiui, Ju the minority of Cormac.