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A messenger is then .dispatched for Cucullin. He ar- 

 rives, and challenges Conloch to single combat; but first 

 requests he will 



To him his purpose and his name confide,. 

 And what his lineage and his land declare.. 



To this requisition, Conloch gives an unwilling refusal. 

 He knows he is about to raise his arm against a parent; 

 but his honour, as a knight, will not allow him to decline • 

 the combat, or declare his name. 



Reluctant, then, the chiefs commenc'd the fight, 



Till glowing honor rous'd their slumbering might I 



Dire was the strife each valiant arm maintain'd, 



And undecided long their fates remain'd ; 



For, till that hour, no eye had ever view'd 



A field so foughi, a, conquest so pnrsu'd ! 



At length Cucullin's kindling soul arose; 



Indignant shame recruited fury lends; 



With fatal aim his glittering lance he throws. 



And low on earth the dying youth extends. - • 



Conloch, feeling the approach of death, addresses 

 Cucullin, in the following pathetic terms. 



Approach! — the wounded youth rejSly'd, — 



Yet, — yet more closely nigh ! 

 On this dear earth, — by that dear side, 



O let me die!— 



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