Ossian Collection > Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal > Volumes 3 and 4

8 LATHMON;
rock of Morven replied ; and the bounding roes
came forth. The foes were troubled in my
prefence : and collected their darkened holl: ; for
I flood , like a cloud on the hill , rejoicing in
the arms of my youth.
Morni * ) fnt beneath a tree , at the roar-
ing- waters of Strumon **): his locks of age
are gray: he leans forward on his ftaff; young
Gaul is near the hero ,_hearing the battles of
his youth. Often did he riie , in the fire of
his foul , at the mighty deeds of Morni.
The aged heard the found of OHian's
fhield : he knew the fign of battle. He ftai ted
at once from his place. His gray hair parted
on his back. He remembers the actions of other
years. My fon, he faid to fair -haired Gaul,
I hear the found of battle. The king of Mor-
ven
*) Morni was chief of a numerous tribe, in the days
of Fingal and his fxther Comhal. The laft- men-
tioned hero was killed in battle againft Morni's tri-
be ; but the valour and condu£l of Fingal reduced
them, at ijft, to obedience. We find the two
heroes perfectly reconciled in this poem.
='•'* ) Stru'-monc , jlroam of the hill. Here the proper
name of a rivulet in the neighbourhood of Sel-
ma.