 THOU wert swift, O Morar! as a roe on the desart; terrible as a meteor of fire. Thy wrath was as the storm. Thy sword in battle, as lightning in the field. Thy voice was a stream after rain; like thunder on distant hills.  The Poems of Ossian - Page 441803Full view - About this book
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...; fair among the fons of the plain. But thou shr.lt tall like Morar (i); and the mourner shall fit on thy tomb. The hills shall know thee no more ; thy bow shall lie in the hall , unftrung. Thou vert fwift, O Morar! as a roe on the .hill ; terrible as a meteor of fire. Thy •wrath... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...Tall thou art on the hill ; fair among the sons of the plain. But thou shalt fall like Morar ; and the mourner shall sit on thy tomb. The hills shall...unstrung. Thou wert swift, O Morar ! as a roe on the hill ; terrible a« a meteor of fire. Thy wrath was as a storm of December. Thy sword in battle, as... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...Tall thou art on the hill ; fair among the sons of the plain. But thou shalt fall like Morar''; and the mourner shall sit on thy tomb. The hills shall...unstrung. Thou wert swift, O Morar ! as a roe on the hill : terrible as a meteor of fire. Thy wrath was as the storm. Thy sword in battle, as lightning... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...Tall thou art on the hill ; fair among the sons of the plain. But thou shalt fall like Morar ; and the mourner shall sit on thy tomb. The hills shall know thee no more ; thy bow shall He in the hall unstrung. Thou wert swift, O Morar ! as a roe on the hill ; terrible at a meteor of... | |
 | Ann Doherty - 1812 - 354 pages
...Mowbray), ' but, thank God !' (as he cast his eyes around the brilliant camp), ' I 'need him not.' ' VI. " Thou wert swift, O Morar ! as a roe on the desert ; terrible as a meteor of fire." Osrion. ON the day after they encamped, they consulted on the best method of surprising the fortress... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...Tall thou art on the hill — fair among the sons of the plain. But thou shall fall like Morar ; and the mourner shall sit on thy tomb. The hills shall...unstrung.— —Thou wert swift, O Morar ! as a roe on the hill — terrible as a meteor of fire. Thy wrath was as the storm — thy sword, in battle, as lightning... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...sluill sit on thy tomb. The hills shall kuow thee 110 more ; thy bow shall lie in the hall, unstrung I t ease; Three panting dogs beside repose ; One bleeding deer is л meteor of fire. Thy wrath was as tho storm. Thy sword in battle, as lightning in the field. Thy... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...Tall thou art on the hill —fair among the sons of the plain. But thou shalt fall like Morar ; and the mourner shall sit on thy tomb. The hills shall...unstrung. Thou wert swift, O Morar ! as a roe on the hill — terrible as a meteor of fire. Thy wrath was as the storm — thy sword, in battle, as lightning... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...that have passed away. Tall thou art on the hill ; fair among the sons of the vale, lint thou sha.lt fall like Morar; the mourner shall sit on thy tomb....The hills shall know thee no more; thy bow shall lie m the hall unstrung ! Thou wert swift, O Morar ! as a roe on the desert, terrible as a meteor of fire.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...that have passed away. Tall thou art on the hill ; fair among the sons of the vale. But thou ehalt cipitous, black, jagged rocks, P'or ever shattered, and the same for ever thec no more ; thy bow shall lie in the hall, unstrung ! Thou wert swift, O Morar! as a roe on the... | |
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