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... song . But memory fails on my mind . I hear the call of years ! They say , as they pass along , Why does Ossian sing ? Soon shall he lie in the narrow house and no bard shall raise his fame ! ' Roll on , ye dark - brown years : ye bring ...
... song . But memory fails on my mind . I hear the call of years ! They say , as they pass along , Why does Ossian sing ? Soon shall he lie in the narrow house and no bard shall raise his fame ! ' Roll on , ye dark - brown years : ye bring ...
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... song of Selma ; That sleep may overtake my soul in the midst of joy ; That the dreams of my youth may return , and the days of the mighty Fingal . Selma ! I behold thy towers , thy trees , thy shaded wall ! I see the heroes of Morven ...
... song of Selma ; That sleep may overtake my soul in the midst of joy ; That the dreams of my youth may return , and the days of the mighty Fingal . Selma ! I behold thy towers , thy trees , thy shaded wall ! I see the heroes of Morven ...
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... song . So interwoven with the poems of Ossian is this intense love for Nature that , tear it away , and the whole web is destroyed . Here is one of the most beautiful descrip- tions : " Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in ...
... song . So interwoven with the poems of Ossian is this intense love for Nature that , tear it away , and the whole web is destroyed . Here is one of the most beautiful descrip- tions : " Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in ...
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... song ? Why , the warrior's chief joy after the toils of battle and the chase was in the song of the bards and the maidens . There is a certain delicacy of feeling which distinguish- es the Celts from their ruder neighbors . In war , we ...
... song ? Why , the warrior's chief joy after the toils of battle and the chase was in the song of the bards and the maidens . There is a certain delicacy of feeling which distinguish- es the Celts from their ruder neighbors . In war , we ...
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... songs , the joy ! and this is all . The Celts were swayed by passion almost uncontrolled by will . They were the creatures of impulse . Many instances could be cited of rash deeds of a moment , atoned for by years of regret . They were ...
... songs , the joy ! and this is all . The Celts were swayed by passion almost uncontrolled by will . They were the creatures of impulse . Many instances could be cited of rash deeds of a moment , atoned for by years of regret . They were ...
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Page 174 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 49 - Whence are thy beams, O Sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years...
Page 49 - ... from the clouds and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more, whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season ; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 49 - Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill. What dost thou behold in the plain ? The stormy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar.
Page 321 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 57 - Let my sins be all forgiven ! Bless the friends I love so well ! Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy there with thee to dwell...
Page 120 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 58 - In death's dark vale I fear no ill With Thee, dear Lord, beside me ; Thy rod and staff my comfort still, Thy Cross before to guide me.
Page 52 - They shall admire the chiefs of old, the race that are no more ! while we ride on our clouds, Malvina ! on the wings of the roaring winds. Our voices shall be heard, at times, in the desert ; we shall sing on the breeze of the rock.
Page 48 - Cona ? My years have passed away in battle. My age is darkened with grief! " Daughter of the hand of snow, I was not so mournful and blind; I was not so dark and forlorn, when Everallin loved me ! Everallin with the dark-brown hair, the white-bosomed daughter of Branno.