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ORAN-MGLLA. 169
meet thy graceful fhadow in gladnefs : The
verdant plains fhaU wave their grafsy locks, .
and fmiie as it pafTeth. Grace is in thy
prefence. Thy breath is as the fcent of a
flowery garden, when it pours its fweet odours
on the wings of the breeze.
Tlie tongue of thy fongs is farroiinded by the
white formeri of the ivory ring *. The found
of
* What is here tranfiated, ivh'ite. formers of the Ivory
rlugy (lands in the original Detid, Gealdb \ a tern: to
wliich no word in the Englilli language bears the fmalleft
afBnity. When inch terms occur, tlie tranflation rruft
undoubttdly lofe all the beauties of the original.
Dcud lignifies a gracernl afLmblage of refined objcifts, .
whole j.crtef lions aftonilh the beholders, and excite the
niofl: agreeable lenf^tions ; a term applied by the Celtic
lards to tie fine let teeth ot the ladies.
A few remarks on this pailapt will contribute to fupporc
the truth of an alTertion, which the tranflator has former-
ly prcfumed to advance ; That the Galic, even in its pre-
sent uncultivated ftate, difplays a luxuriant richnefs of'
poetical terms, incoirparably fuptrior to any of the iKo-
dern larguages.
The care which the ladies of our days take to have the
avenue leading to their gentle fJcmachs adorned with a
proper fet of ivory centineJs, leaves no room to doubt, but
ihcfe

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Works of the Caledonian bards
DescriptionTranslated from the Galic, / by John Clark, F.S.A. Scot. Translator (author?) named in second edition: John Clark. Purports to be translations from the Gaelic but may be original. cf. Dict. nat. biog. (Clark, John, d. 1807). Preface. -- Introduction to the translations. -- Morduth, an antient heroic poem [by Douthah] -- The Chief of Scarlaw. -- The Chief of Feyglen. -- The cave of Creyla. -- Colmala and Orwi. -- The old bard's wish. -- Duchoil's elegy. -- Sulvina's elegy. -- Oran-Molla. -- The words of woe. -- The approach of summer. -- The antient chief [by Callum Ruadh].
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