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B. III. An epic f OEM. 35
decca: fave me from thewralhotmy father, king
of the windy Morven !
The youth, wjth unconcerii, went on: his lic-
roes by his fide. The fons of death fell by his
hand; and Gormal echoed around.
Before the halls of Starno the fons cf the
chafe convened. The king's dark brows \vere
like clouds. His eyes like meteors of night. Bring
hither, he cries, Agandecca to her lovely king cf
Morven. His hand is flaincd with the blood oi
my people; and her words have not bc-en in
vain. —
She came with the red eye of trears. She came
with her loofe raven locks. Her .white breafl:
heaved with fighs, like the foam of the flreamy
Lubar. Starno pierced her TkI-s with ft-eel. She
fell like a wreath of fnow that Aides from the
rocks of Ronan ; when the woods are Ifill, and
the echo deepens in the vale.
Then Fmgal eyed his valiant chiefs, his valiant
chiefs took arms. The gioom cf the brittle roared,
and Lochlin fled or died. — Pale, in his bounding
fhip he clofed the maid of the raven hair.
Her tomb afcends cm Ardven, and the lea roars
round the dark dwelling of Agand-ecca.
Blessed be her foul, faid Cuchullin, and blef-
fed be the mouth of the fong. — Strong y.vas die
youth of Fiingal, and flrong in his arm of age.
•Lochlin fhall fall again before the king of echoing
Morven. Shew thy face from a cloud, O mi>"'c:i ;
light his white faiis on the wave of the night. An-d if
ajiy llrong fpirit * of heaven fits on that low-hung
cioud^
* This is the only pafTige in the poem thn has the
appearance of religion. — Eut Cuchuilin's afoilrophe to
this fpirit is accompanied with a doubt ; fo that it is not
eafy to determine v;bether the iiero n^eant a faperior:be-
T')2;, or the ghoftsx); dt'eealtd v/arriors, who wc-ie.-^p-
pof^!*l.