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'• Patron of bards ! refpite to champions. 

 A tribute on Septs, Ruin of invaders. 

 Prince of fure protetSlion. Subduer of every country. 

 Confpicuous in regal laws. Impofer of heavy tributes. 



Prefiding in every great afTembly. Unboundedly generous. 

 Penetrating in council. Gallant iflue of the great Darius ". 

 Watchful of every great charge. Of unfullied reputation. 

 Head of the long reigning Sept '. Valiant and invincible. 



Sea of refounding billows. Lord of high cultivations "". 

 Companion of gallant feats. Mighty are the flrokes of the illu{- 



flrious Goll ! 

 Vigilant commander of the legions. Devifer of exalted deeds. 

 Fierce, all vi<5torious. In words graceful and nervous, 



Goll, of fierce and mighty blows. Hero of rigid partition, 

 Defpoiler of the Ernains ". Sword of rapid and fevere execution. 



conqueft their power was confined to the province of Connaught ; and this alfo^ by 

 marriage, fell to the MileCans in the fourth century. 



" The Irifli, like the Chinefe, always revered the plough. Though many deeds 

 of our early monarchs have been loft, yet fuch as eminently promoted agriculture 

 have never been forgot. Even tlie names of private adventurers in this way have 

 been preferved ; and many trades of land in the kingdom yet retain the names of 

 their firft reclaimers. Behold, then, the tafte and good fenfe of the bards in cele- 

 brating Goll for fo eflential a quality to an Irifli hero ! See the expanded education 

 of our antient knights ! 



" The inhabitants about Loch Erne were called Ernains and Erenochs. 



( O ) Hero 



