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52 T E M O R A: Book II.
not heard. I Hiook, '<for the ion of .Fingal.
Vv'^hy. ijbpuld the foe come, by nigbt; and the
dark haired warrior fail? Diftant, fallen
murmurs rife : like the noife of the Irke of Le-
go , v/hen its waters ihrink , in the days of
froR: , and all . its biirlting- ice refoAinds; . The
people of Lara look to heaven , and. fojefee the
ftorm. — — My fleps are forward on the heath :
the fpear of Ofcar in my hand. Red ilars
looked from high. I gleamed, along the night.
-— — 1 law Fillan (ilent before me , bending
forward from Mora's rock. He heard the fhout
of
to obferve the motions of Cathmor. In this fi-
tuation were affairs, when Offiau , upon hearing
the nuife of the approaching enerny, went to
find out his brother. Their converration natural-
ly introduces the epifode, conceriiin'g Conar the
fou of .Trenmor the 'fe-ft Irifh moitarch , - which
Is i"o nece'Jary to the underftanding of the founda-
tion of the rebellion and uiurpaticn of Cairbar
and Cathmor. Fillan •was' the youugell of
the 'mi)is of Fliigal , then 'living.. He and Bosmi-
n.i, r.iCMtioned in the battle of Lora y were the
only thiklrcn of the .Ij^ing , by .Ci»itho the. daugh-
ter cf Cathull.i king of Inis - ..ore , whom he had
taken to wife, after the death of Ros-crana,
the daughter cf Corniac Mac - Conar king of Ire*
hmu.