Galic Antiquities

2 74 T R A T H A L:
His fleps of age will wander on the fliore. The roar of the
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wave will come from the diflant rock. Calmora,' lifting his
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gray head, he will fay, is that thy voice ?'—The fon of the
rock alone will reply. Retire to thy houfe, O Cornglas, retire
from the ftormy fliore ; for thy Calmora hears thee not. Her
fleps with Colgul are high on clouds. On moon-beams flie may
come, perhaps, to thy dreams, when iilence dwells in Soma.
Daughter of beauty, thou art low ; but thou fleepefl in the tomb
with Colgul !"
SucM was the fong over Calmora ; but who could fpeak inpralfc
of Colgul ? He and his people came, like the cloud of death that
rifes from the cave of Lano, and creeps through night into the
booth of the hunter, when his eyes are clofed, and all the winds
arc quiet. Often have their ghofls fighed on the mournful mifls
that lowly creep along the tombs : often has their voice been
lonely there.—But thou feefl them not, O fun : they only come
when darknefs robes the hills ; when all thy beams are away.
But thou feeft the ghoft of Trathal ; often docs he flalk in thy
beams at noon, when the hills around are covered with mift. Thou
delighted to fhed thy beams on the clouds which enrobe the bi-ave,
and to fpread thy rays around the tombs of the valiant. Often do
I feel them on the bed of Trenmor, and even now thou warmeft
the gray flone of Trathal. Thou remembereft the heroes, O fun :
for their fleps in thy prcfcnoe were lovely; and before their time
thou
lliig ganiaich nan tonn ga chluafan.
Pill o ftoirm alluidh na traglm,
" An e Co do ghuth, inghean mo ghaoil !" '.S gun nc.ich a' frcagra' do ghlaoidh
—Thi ula aofda ri AonCai' arda. Ach Mac-thalla f nam faolnfliafacb.
Pill gu talla nan corn-glas,
+ M.ir-liallii, " the fon of the rock," is the Galic name for Eclio.