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Ue LAMENTATION of the WIFE s/'DARGO'. 



X AM the wife of Dargo, fon of Collath, a man who knew 

 no fault. Every hero muft at length be ftretched out in death — 

 forrowful am I to-night ! 



Dargo, fon of Collath, branch of the Clouds; beautiful amidft 

 a thoufand ; anger never fat upon his countenance : Dargo, that 

 fell by a boar ! 



With his hawk and two dogs he colleded the game in the 

 fields : Dargo, who took pleafure in them, to-night is buried in 

 the grave ! 



Pleasant and lovely was thy cheek ; it did not betray fear 

 in battle j thy heart was generous and open, and thy complexion 

 brighter than the fun ! 



Never didft thou refufe thy affiftance to the diftreffed, nor 

 proted the unjuft ; wert guilty of no falfhood, nor ever didft thou 

 decline the combat of arms with any man. 



» See the notes on tlie poem called Calthon and Colmal, by M'Pherfon. The 

 original of this poem is very correiJlly printed in the Perth edition of Gaelic 

 poems. 



