Hew Morrison Collection > Minor poems, and translations, in verse

THE DEATH OF CARRIL.
IV.
Insatiate still : soon as the morn arose
The heroes met, for mortal strife arrayed :
The sprightly Carril, vanquisher of foes,
And Gaul the stern, renowned for piercing blades.
V.
In deadly clasp the champions now unite,
Or, round their arms they speed in wild career ;
The brave Fingalians mourned the dreadful fight,
The clanging din resounded far and near.
VI.
Now flash their rapid arms with living fire —
Their sno^vy breasts bedewed with liquid toil ;
Their tough spears shivered in the contest dire.
Their targes cloven to the crimson soil.
VII.
CarrU the kind, the valiant hero, fell :
Breathless he lay beneath his portly foe ;
Fierce, cruel was the stroke — alas, to tell ! —
That, in the combat, laid the fav'rite low !