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238 THE POEMS Of OSSIAN.
With morning I loosed the king. I gave the long-
haired maid. Mal-orchol heard my words in the midsJ
of his echoing halls. " King of Fulirfed wild, why
should Ton-thormod mourn ? He is of the race of he-
roes, and a flame in war. Your fathers have been foes,
but now their dim ghosts rejoice in death. They
stretch their hands of mist to the same shell in Loda.
Forget their rage, ye warriors ! It was the cloud ot
other years."
Such were the deeds of Ossian, while yet his locks
were young ; though loveliness, with a robe of beams,
clothed the daughter of many isles. We call back,
maid of Lutha, the years that have rolled away '
With morning I loosed the king. I gave the long-
haired maid. Mal-orchol heard my words in the midsJ
of his echoing halls. " King of Fulirfed wild, why
should Ton-thormod mourn ? He is of the race of he-
roes, and a flame in war. Your fathers have been foes,
but now their dim ghosts rejoice in death. They
stretch their hands of mist to the same shell in Loda.
Forget their rage, ye warriors ! It was the cloud ot
other years."
Such were the deeds of Ossian, while yet his locks
were young ; though loveliness, with a robe of beams,
clothed the daughter of many isles. We call back,
maid of Lutha, the years that have rolled away '
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| Description | Translated by James Macpherson ; to which are prefixed a preliminary discourse and dissertation on the aera and poems of Ossian. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.189 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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