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150 ANCIENT GAELIC BARDS.
And ray coming chances strain my car,
And almost blind my eye."
"When heroes rush together,
When battle wakes around
With clash and clang and crushing blows
I hear my sweetest sound."
So Oscar spoke. — Thus Diarmad said,
" When in my secret ear
Sweet woman whispers love for me,
My best loved sound I hear."
"When first I catch my good hounds' cry,
Where the proud stag stamps the ground,
And stands at bay," MacLuy said,
"I hear ray sweetest sound."
Then Fingal said, "My rausic is
The banner's fluttering fold
When winds blow free, and the brave I see
Beneath its streaming gold."
Alas! alas! my sweetest sound
Was once in Fingal's hall;
To hear bards sing, and heroes speak.
And now they 've perished all !
As these men spoke so admirably in character, we may think
that they all answered well ; except perhaps the rash and impul-
sive Conan. He is always prompt, testy, and fool-hardy, and
never appears possessed of much judgment. Diarmad is gay and
gallant, as might be expected in the lovely hero, of whom the
prose tales say, he had an irresistible beauty-spot on his forehead,
on which, whoever looked, loved him. Another ballad appropri-
ately represents the last Avords of Diarmad to have been, " Fare-
And ray coming chances strain my car,
And almost blind my eye."
"When heroes rush together,
When battle wakes around
With clash and clang and crushing blows
I hear my sweetest sound."
So Oscar spoke. — Thus Diarmad said,
" When in my secret ear
Sweet woman whispers love for me,
My best loved sound I hear."
"When first I catch my good hounds' cry,
Where the proud stag stamps the ground,
And stands at bay," MacLuy said,
"I hear ray sweetest sound."
Then Fingal said, "My rausic is
The banner's fluttering fold
When winds blow free, and the brave I see
Beneath its streaming gold."
Alas! alas! my sweetest sound
Was once in Fingal's hall;
To hear bards sing, and heroes speak.
And now they 've perished all !
As these men spoke so admirably in character, we may think
that they all answered well ; except perhaps the rash and impul-
sive Conan. He is always prompt, testy, and fool-hardy, and
never appears possessed of much judgment. Diarmad is gay and
gallant, as might be expected in the lovely hero, of whom the
prose tales say, he had an irresistible beauty-spot on his forehead,
on which, whoever looked, loved him. Another ballad appropri-
ately represents the last Avords of Diarmad to have been, " Fare-
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Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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