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" Dost thou not see, O Gaul ! how the steps of my age are honoured ? Morna moves 

 forth, and the youn^ men meet him with awe, and turn their eyes with silent joy on his 

 course." 



Lathmon. 



" My doctrine shall drop as the rain, • • » and as the showers upon the grass." 



Deut. xxxii. 2. 



" My words are pleasant as the shower which falls on the sunny field." 



FiNGAL, book V. 



MISCELLANEOUS IMITATIONS. 



" Nisus ait : Dii ne hunc ardorem mentibus addunt 

 Euryale ? an sua cuique Deus fit dira cupido ? 

 Aut pugnam, aut aliquid jamdudum invadere magnum 

 Mens agitat mihi ; nee placida contenta quiete est. 

 Cernis, quae Rutulos habeat fiducia rerum : 



Lumina rara micant : somno vinoque soluti , , . ,. 



. » Procubuere : silent late loca." 



ViRG. ix. 184. 



" Son of Fingal ! he said, why bums the soul of Gaul ? My heart beats high. My steps 

 are disordered ; my hand trembles on my sword. When I look towards the foe my soul 

 lightens before me. I see their sleeping host. Tremble thus the souls of the valiant in bat- 

 tles of the spear ?" — Lathmon. 



The episode of Gaul and Ossian, in the Poem of Lathmon is copied from that of Nisus 

 and Euryalus in Virgil, with such variations as the author supposed most likely to throw a 

 column of mist over his plagiarisms. The Trojan heroes slay their foes sleeping, but the 

 more generous Gael, disdaining to steal a victory, strike their bossy shields in the camp of 

 their enemies, that they may be slaughtered awake. Anxious to see how the Latin transla- 

 tion of this poem would appear beside the strains of the Mantuan bard, we suffered great 

 disappointment on finding that it is not inserted in Sir John Sinclair's volumes. Why this 

 ©mission? 



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