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An EPIC POEM. ^55
gleaming- tribes. Why, Fillan, didft thou
fpeak of Ofcar, to call forth my figh? 1 muft
forget *) the warrior, till the ftorm is rolled
away. Sadnefs ought not to dwell in danger ,
nor the tear in the eye pf war. Our fathers
forgot their fallen fons, till the noife of arms
was paft. Then forrow returned to the tomb,
and the fong of bards arofe.
Conar
*) It is remarkable, that, after this pairage, Ofcar
Is not mentioned in all Temora. The fituation*
of the characters who ad in the poem, are fo in-
terefting, that others, foreign to the fubjeft ,
could not be introduced with any luftre. Tho' the
epilode , which follows , may feem to flow natu-
rally enough from the converfation of the bro-
thers : yet I have fhewn , in a preceding note ,
and, more at large, in the disfertation prefixed
to this collection , that the poet had a farther
defign in view. It is highly probable , tho' the
Irifh annalifts do not agree with Oflian in other
particulars , that the Conar here mentioned is
the fame with their Conar • mor , I. e. Cottar
the ^Ytint , whom they place in the firft cen-
tury.
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