Ossian Collection > Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian

68 REPORT ON THE
And each bird fhall perch, as it arrives,
O n a fprig of its verdant branch.
Gaul in his mift (hall hear their chearful note,
While virgins are finging of Evirchoma.
Until all of thefe fhall perifh,
Your memory fhall not be difunited :
Until the ftone crumble into duft,
And this tree decay with age ;
Until ftreams ceafe to run,
A ad the fource of the mountain waters be dried up ;
U'itil there be loft, in the flood of age,
Euch bard, and fong, and fubje£t of ftory,
The ftranger fhall not afk, « Who was Morni's fon ?
Or where was the dwelling of the king of Strumon ?'.
Of this latter part of the poem, called, from the
principal figure in it, ■ Lcaba Ghuill,' the Bed of
Gaul, the Committee received another copy, differ-
ing very 'ittle from the above, from a moft refpect-
able correfpondent, the Reverend Mr M'Diarmid,
minifier of Weem in Perthfhire, which he procured
in a channel altogether different from that of Dr
Smith, and tranfmitted to the Committee, before
he knew that it had been previoufly publifhed. That
the Society may have an opportunity of comparing
the original with Dr Smith's copy, it is fubjoined,
immediately after that copy, in the Appendix, p.
184. The literal tranilation, as given by Mr Mac-
Diarmid, is as follows :
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