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dazzled with that beam of lipht, which came, as ifluins: from a
cloud, to fave the wounded hero. — Growing in his pride he flood,
and called forth all his fteel.
As meet two broad-winged eagles, in their founding flrife, on
tlie winds : fo ruflied the two chiefs, on Moi-lena, into gloomy
fight. V>y turns are the fteps of the kings * forward on their
rocks ; for now the dulky war feemed to defcend on their fwords.
— Cathmor feels the joy of warriors, on his mofTy hill : their joy in
fecret when dangers rife equal to their fouls. His eye is not turned
on Lubar, but on Morven's dreadful king ; for he beheld him, on
Mora, rifing in his arms.
FoLDATH -f- fell on his fhield ; the fpear of Fillan pierced the
king. Nor looked the youth on the fallen, but onward rolled the
war.
* Finga! and Cathmor. dition. Whether the legend is really an-
t The fall of Foldath, if we may be- cient, or the invention of a late age, I
lieve tradition, was predidled to him, be- Aial' not pretend to determine, tho', from
fore he had left his own country to join the phrafeology, I fhould fufpeft the laft.
Cairbar, in his defigns on the Irifh throne. y, , , /»■ , ,- . . „ , .
° toi-OATH, addreUin?the fpiritsof his
U- . .« ,U„ „ „C Tilt .~ „ :_~ M a jr J
He went to the cave of Moma, to enquire
fathers
of the fpirits of his fathers, concernins; the t-v i t n j • r
•^ =" JJark, 1 Itand \n your prefence ; fathers
fuccefs of the enterprife of Cairbar. The , ,, , , ., , c\. u n
^ of I'oldath, hear. Shall myfleps pafs over
refponfes of oracles are always attended . . ^ tt„. ^ ,
' ' Atha, to Ullin of the roes ?
with obfcurity, and liable to a double
meaning : Foldath, therefore, put a favour- '^h^ Anfwer.
able interpretation on the prediction, and Thy fleps fhall pafs over Atha, to the
purfued his adopted plan of aggrandizing green dwelling of kings. There (hall thy
himfelf with the family of Atha. I {hall, feature arife, over the fallen, like a pillar
here, tranflate the anfwer of the ghojls of of thunder-clouds. There, terrible in dark-
hii ar'.ceforSi as it is handed down by tra- nefs, fhalt thou ftand, till' the rtfieaid.
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