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86 T E M O R A : Book 111.
of battles; at once he ftrode away. Bent over
a diftant ftream he Hood : the tear hung in his
eye. He ftruck, at times, the thilHe's head,
with his inverted fpear.
Nor is he unfeen of Fingal. Sidelong he
beheld his fon. He beheld him , with burfling
joy ; and turned , amidft his crowded foul. In
filence turned the king towards Mora" of woods.
He hid the big tear with his locks. — — - At
length his voice is heard.
* ) Firft of the fbns of Morni ; thou rock
that detieft the ftorm! Lead thou my battle,
for the race of low - laid Cormac. No boy's
IhfF
is often called the fon of Clatho , to diftinguifh
him from thofe Ions which Fingal had by Ros-
crana.
•^') Gaul, the fon of Morni , next to Fingal, is the
inoft renowned chaiafter introduced by Ofllau in
his poems. He is , like Ajax in the Iliad , di-
ftinguifhed by his manly taciturnity. The ho-
nourable epithets beftowed on him here, by Fin-
gal , are amazingly expreflive in the original.
There is not a paflage in all Temora, which lof-
es fo much in translation, as this. The firft
part of the fpeech is rapid and irregular, and
i\ peculiarly jgalculated to animate the foul to
war