Ossian Collection > Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books

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his brother in I-thorno : he left the land of liis fathers. He chofe
his place, in filence, by rocky Crathmo-craulo. His race came
forth, in their years ; they came forth to war, but they always fell.
The wound of my fathers is mine, king of cclioing ifles !
He drew an arrow from his fide. He fell pale, in a land un-
known. His foul came forth to his fathers, to their ftormy iHe.
There thev purfued boars of mift, along the fkirts of winds.
The chiefs flood filent around, as the ilones of Loda, on their hiil.
The traveller fees them, thro' the twilight, from his lonely path.
He thinks them the ghofis of the aged, forming future wars.
Night came down, on U-thorno. Still flood the chiefs in their
grief. The blaft hifled, by turns, thro' every warrioi 's hair. — Fin-
gal, at length, burlled forth from the thoughts of his foul. He
called UUin of harps, and bade the fong to rife. — No falling fire,
that is only feen, and then retires in night ; no departing meteor
was Crathmo-craulo's chief. He was like the ftrong-beaming fun,
long rejoicing on his hill. Call the names of his fathers, from
their dwellings old.
I-THORNo *, faid the bard, that rifeft midfl ridgy feas ! Why is
thy head fo gloomy, in the ocean's mift .'' From thy vales came
forth
Lochlin. The Hi.hland fenachies, who of the north has chofen for his hero, Starn-
never mifled to make their comments on, mor, the father of Duth-maruno, and,
and additions to, the works of Offian, have confidering the adventures thro' which he
given us a long lift of the anceftors of has led him, the piece is neither difagree-
Duth-maruno, and a particular account of Me, nor abounding with that kind of fic-
their anions, many of which are of the tion, which fliocks credibility,
marvellous kind. One of the tale makers • This eiiifodc is, ia the original, ex-
tremely