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Ossian's Poems.

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Here I have heard on hills the battle clash      Roar to the windy sea that roared again:      When, drunk with wrath, upon the clanking plain     Barbaric kings did meet in war and dash     Their maild thousands down, heard onset crash      Like crags contending 'gainst the battering main.      Torrents of helms, beaming like streams of rain,     Blue-billowing 'neath the pale moon's fitful flash;     Saw the scared moon hang over the black wood      Like a pale wreath of foam; shields, spears, and swords     Shoot green as meteors thro' the steely flood,      Or shine like ripples 'round their heathen lords     Standing like stubborn rocks, whence the wild wave     Of war circled in steel and foamed out brave on brave.

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