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564 T E M O R A : Boo k VIIL
the fount of the rock. Here the Hand-.
ard *) of Morven poured its wreaths on the
wind, to mark the way of Ferad - artho , from
his fecret vale. Bright , from his parted
weft, the fun of heaven looked abroad. The
hero favy his people, and heard their ihouts of
joy. In broken ridges round , they glittered
to the beam. The king, rejoiced , as a hunter
in his own green vale , when , after the ftorm
is rolled away , he lees the gleaming lides of the
rock. The green thorn fhakes its head in theii:
face ; from their top ^ look forward the roes.
^*) Grey, at his moflfy cave, is bent thg
tged form of Clonnial. The eyes of the bard
had
* ) The creeling of his ftamlarcl on the bank of Lu-*
bar, was the frgnal, which Fingal , in the be-
ginning of the book , promileH to give to the
chiefs, who went to co»ida6l Ferad -- artho to the
army , fhonld he himlelf pievail iy battle. Th?^
ftandard here ( and in every other part of Ofll-
nix's poems, where it is mentioned) is called, ths
[H:i-beam. The reafcn of this appellation:, I gave,.
more than onee , in my notes in the preceding
vo'ame.
•• ; The poet changes the fcene to the valley of Le-
na, whiiher Sul-malla, had been f(?uc, by Cath-
mocj