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

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XIII *.
/^UcHULAiD fat by tlie wall ; by the
tree of the ruftling leaf f. His
ijiear leaned againft the mofly rock.
His fliield lay by him on the grafs*
Whilft he thought on the mighty Carbre
whom he flew in battle, the fcout of
the ocean came, Morau the fon of I'i-
thlL
Rise, Cuchulaid, rife I I fee the fliips
©f Garve. Many are the foe, Cuchulaid ; /tiSS,
many the fons of Lochlyn. i^v* 1^1
MoRAN ! thou ever tremblcfi: ; thy
fears mcreafe the foe. They are the
fhips of the Defcrt of hills arrived tf) af-
fift Cuchulaid,
* This is the opening of the epic poem tnentioned
in ihe preface. The two following frigmeiUs are parts
offome epifides of the fame work.
j- The afpen cr pop'ar tree.
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