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Fingal, a fine-eirin; a poem, in six cantos
Fingal a fineeirin a poem in six cantos Author:James Macpherson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CANTO II. vhy mighty Beal, o'er Tarah's spires, Ascends the brightness of thy fires ? Could'st thou, from Carrith Nuinah's plain, Again to battle wake the sla... more »in, Then, then might Marthon praise thy name, And bless, not curse, thy quick'ning flame. But no, regardless round the sky, Thou roll'st thy glitt'ring course on high, While men, in sacrifice and pray'r, May waste their hours, not win thy care." Such were the words of Marthon More, As from Sleigh Connell's height he view'd The far-left hills, and field of blood; Then gloomy cast his eyes around, Where Tarah's tow'rs, with sunbeams crown'd, Th' unseemly garb of gladness wore. Ill to the temper of his mind Was suited the gay smile of morn, While, tho' on gem-bright car reclin'd, He felt within his breast a thorn; . While in his heart, and in his brain, Revenge unsated burn'd, And long-veil'd guilt's deep rankling pain, In stingful throbs return'd. When glorying in his prideful hour The song he never lov'd to hear,, Peace o'er his bosom now to pour No son of minstrelsy was near. To him then, with low bended sword, Spake Innisraone's magician lord, The ghastly-looking Cullen Bwee, Whose spells oft tempest-toss'd the sea, And left to whiten on the strand The bones of many a gallant band; Cullen, who could from dreams of dread The spirits of the guilty dead Awake, to groan for horrors past, To shriek for future doom, To long that the sepulchral load Had pow'r to shield from torture's goad, And from the forked burning blast That fires night's horrent gloom; When graves are rent, And clouds are bent By magic drear, and wide are hurl'd The terrors of the spectral world. " Why, king of heroes, should thy soul Be sunk," he said, " for one defeat ? Again the waves of war shall roll, And o'er th...« less