Ossian Collection > Fingal

82 C O M A L A :
Melilcoma.
There Comala fits forlorn! two gray dogs
near fhake their rough ears, and catch the flying
breeze. Her red cheek reds on her arm, and
the mountain wind is in her hair. She turns her
l)h]e-rolling eyes toward the fields of his promife.
— Where art tliou, O Fingal, for the nigiit is ga-
thering around ?
Comala.
O Carun * of the ftreams ! wliy do I behold
thy waters rolling in blood? Has the noife of the
battle been heard on thy banks ; and fleeps the
king of Morven ? — Rife, moon, thou daughter of
the iky ! look from between thy clouds, tfiat I may
behold the light of his fleel, on the field of his pro-
mifc. — Or rather let the meteor, that lights our
d:^parted fathers through the night, come with its
red light, to fliew me the way to my fallen hero.
Who will defend me from forrow? Who from the
love of Hidallan ? long fliall Comala look before fhe
can behold Fingal in the midft of his hofl: ; bright
as the beam of the morning in the cloud of an early
Hiower.
Hidallan f.
Roll, thou mill: of Gloomy Cona, roll on the
path
* Carun or Cara'on, n "joinJitig rhjer. — This river
retains ftill the name of Carron, and falls into the Forth
fome miles to the North of Falkirk.
— Gentescjue alias cum felleret armh
Sedibus^ aut ^nclas 'vilem fervarei in ufum
Sefvifii, hie conterAifuos defendere fines
Romn fecurigeris pr^iendit moenia Scotis :
Hie fpe progrejpjs pofttOy Caronis ad undam
Terminus Aufoniiftgnat di^vorliaregni. Buchan.
f Hidallan was fenl by Fingal to give notice to Co-
mala of his return i he to revenge himfelf on her for
flighting