Ossian Collection > Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland

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Derm ID and Ofcur were once They
reaped the battle together. Their
friendiliip was flroiig as their fleel ; and
death walked between them to the field.
They came on the foe like two rocks
falling from the brows of Ardven. Their
fwords were ftained with the blood of
the valiant: warrioiirs fainted at their
names. \^'ho was a match for Ofcur, .
but Dermid? and who for Dermid, but
Ofcur?
They I^illed mighty Dargo in the
iield ; Daro;o before invincible. His-
daughter was fair as the morn ; mild
as the beam of night. Her eyes, like
two ftars in a fhower : her breath, the
gale of fpring : herbreafts, as the new-
fallen fnow floating on the moving heath-
The warriours faw her, and loved i their
fouls were fixed on the maid. Eacb
loved her, as his fame; each muft pof-
fefs her or die. But her foul was fixed
on