Galic Antiquities

26o M A N O S;
flowers, are feen below in their fmilijig lake f .—But the breeze
foon comes, and fpreads a momentary ruffle
over the face of the
fmoothed wave. The yellow hills, and the trees in the deep, are
vanifhed ; and all their beauty, for a feafon, is failed. Thus
ruffled was the mild face of my brother of love, in his return
The combat of heroes he fliall have, fald the boaftful Connan ;
I will bring to my king the head of the chief.
Why fhould not Gorman be allowed to know the weaknefs of
his arm ? He went : but Manos would not fight with the feeble.
He bade the vaunting Fuathas come forth, to meet the boaftful
Connan.—In the battles of Lochlin Fuathas flood always behind ;
nor even there was he void of fear.
One night as they had fought
to the moon, too far behind, by the fide of a Uttle ftream, was
Fuathas. A tall hero appeared on the other fide ; and taller flill
appeared his fpear. Fuathas flew : the other purfued him hard.
In the midft of his fear, as he leapt the flream, he fell. Beneath
him, to his joy, fell the foe. In vain dofl thou, plead for mercy,
he cried, as he drew his fword. But none, fave his own fhade,
had Fuathas.— 'Not fmaller is now thy caufe of fear, when thou
dcfcendeft to engage with Connan.
We faw him come forth from their hoft : but the rufl was on
from the hofts of Lochlin. Fingal knew he mull fight. " Manos
demands the combat of heroes."
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Th« beauty of this paflag* in the "S mM!l i caoin ghnuis na lr«gfia ;
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Thrcig na coillu',— threiR na llcihhte
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«rifiinal claims here a place.
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Blia s an lochan (licimh ri gaiic.
Dl.' imith Fcar'as mo bhraihair fein, _,,.,. ,, ,
—3 amnuil Im caochla crutii
Mar orra-.mieibht,. bha chruth,
„„ Mn»h.. facbd dubhach n,r co'ail,
Tra bhios dcarf. na maidoe 's u> dlinchd,
q ,,,„,,„, l„^,,,^„ j^^a fiar uainn.
•Sa choill fa bla fan lochau fhe'ar.
Ach tbiiirling olttag on aonach
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