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In vain their care; -- the foul for ever filed,

And fate had number'd INDULPH with the dead.
CULENA, whom young Durrus fet apart,
With a green bank fecur'd the hostile dart.
Her father's fate affair'd her tender ear,

She beat her fnowy breast, and tore her hair:
Frantic along the fand she run, fhe flew,
And on the corfe diftrefsful beauty threw :-
She call'd her father's fhade with filial cries,
And all the daughter ftreaming from her eyes.
Bent on revenge the furious Durrus frode,
And ey'd, with angry look, the fable flood.
A fhip, which near had took its nodding stand,
Fix'd with the pitchy haulfer to the strand,
Remains of SUENO's fleet, the Hero view'd,
And to the mournful warriors spoke aloud:
"Let these whose actions are enchain'd by years
Honour the mighty dead with friendly tears;
While we of youth, defeending to the main,
Exact severe atonement of the DANE."

He thus and rufbing thro' the billowy roars; With brawny arms his rapid journey oars Divides with rolling cheft the ridgy sea,

Lashing the bubbling liquid in his way.

The

The boat he feiz'd, and, measʼring back the deep, Wafted his brave companions to the fhip;

The haulfer broke, unfurl'd the fwelling fail,
And caught the vig'rous spirit of the gale:
Before the fable prow the ocean parts,
And groans beneath the veffel as it darts.

Now on the foe the SCOTTISH Warriors gain; Swells on the approaching eye the floating DANE. Fierce ULRIC's fkill brought up the lazy rear, Fam'd in the fields of main to urge the war. Twice feven years, in bafe purfuit of gain,

He plow'd the waves, the common foe of men;
At laft to HAROLD aiding arms he join'd;
Grafping the fpoil with avaricious mind.
At first he shoots the leaping shaft afar,
And manages with fkill the diftant war.
The chiefs of ALBION with collected might,
Bear on the foe, and close the naval fight.

Deck join'd to deck, and man engag'd with man,
Sword fpoke with fword, and Scor transfix'd his

DANS,

The smoaking oak is cover'd o'er with gore,

he whole pyratc-crew are now no more.

The

The empty hull from wave to wave is tost,
Nods as it floats, the fport of ev'ry blaft.

The CALEDONIAN chiefs again pursue:
The SCANDINAVIAN fleet o'er ocean flew.
T'elude the foe the DANES fly diff'rent ways;
And cut with fep'rate prows the hoary feas..
Some bear to fea, fome rufh upon the land,
And fly amain on earth, a trembling band.

As, in purfuit of doves, on rapid wings The darting hawk thro' air his journey fings; But when the parting flock divides the sky, Hovers, in doubt this way or that to fly. So undetermin❜d long young Durrus stood; At length he figh'd, and thus begun aloud: "While thus, O chiefs, we urge the flying DANE, Unmourn'd, unhonour'd lies the mighty flain;

'Tis ours to grace with woe great INDULPH's bier, And o'er his fallen virtue fhed the tear."

The warrior spoke the CALEDONIANS figh'd, And with returning prow the waves divide; With fwelling fail bring on the fatal shore, Where, o'er the dead, the aged chiefs deplore. The warriors bear their monarch as they come, In fad proceffion to the filent tomb;

Forfak

Torlake with lazy fteps the founding main,
And move a fad and lamentable train.

Behind the dead the tuneful bards appear,
And mingle with their elegies the tear:
From their fad hearts the mournful numbers flow,
In all the tuneful melody of woe.

In grief's folemnity CULENA leads

A mournful train of tear-diftilling maids:
Above the reft, the beauteous queen appears,
And heightens all her beauties with her tears.

Now in the tomb the godlike INDULPH laid, Shar'd the dark couch with the illuftrious dead: All o'er his grave the mournful warriors figh, And give his duft the tribute of the eye: Removing, as the night inwrapt the sky,

They fhare the nuptial feaft with folemn joy.
The royal Durrus, with a husband's care,
Sooth'd, in his martial arms, the forrowing fair;
O'er ALBION's rocks exerted his command,

And stretch'd his fcepter o'er a willing land.

FINI S.

AND

EL FIN A.

A LEGENDARY TALE.

Edinburgh:
PRINTED BY JA. PILLANS & SONS;

AND SOLD BY W. MUDIE, BOOKSELLER, SOUTH BRIDGE,
AND THE OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

1798.

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