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

20Ò COMPARISON
Sgaoilte do ehliu anns gach àm (/«),
Is iomadh cèad a dhiong thu in corag (n) V*
Tog do ghath is noch do ghniomha,
O nach eil do'n jj di ach corag |j d(o)
" A laoich nan gorm-shul suilbhear (/>) ! '
Labhair e gu ciuin mar b' àbhaist Qf),
" Ag Conal tha cruaidh lann ghiar(r)
Chad fhuair coimheach riamh mi glacta(r>
And f hidir sibh an camhlach ard ?
No cia is ceann ard ar na slòigh (^) ì
Mar chuilc Loch Leuga an àireamh
Thriall an tràigh san aird an ear,
Na thog trein an siuil gu hard,
Ar gach bare* a thainig ar lear(«).
* * *
Cha do thrèig sinu riamh na cathan
La an àir ar làr a chatha.
Sheas o thòs an tùs na teugbhoil,
Ann bu mhinig imirt gheurlann.
Eug nan creuchd an d'eur ga sheachna ?
No beum cheàd an thrèig le meatachd ?
Thuirling an diu sluagh gun àireamh
Feadh nam beann, is gun Fhionn à làthair.
Is baoghalach dol na'n dàil,
Is tu ar òrigri Innsefàil.
— " I never fled, young son of Matha ! I was swift with
my friends in fight ; but small is the fame of Connal ! The
* Barc is one of the many Celtic words wbich were retained by the
French, and thence transferred into the English ; being acknowledged as a
genuine term of the Armoric by the learned Pelletier in his excellent Dic-
*(«) Id. p. 83. st. I. (*) Id. p. 82. 1. st. (o) Id. p. 85. st. 4. (/>) Id. p. 8->.
St. 1. ( 7 ) Id. p. 81. st. S. (r) Id. p. 72. st. 2. (j) Id.p.80. St. 6. (t) Id. p. 1?.
St. 5. («) Id. 19. st. 2.