TO BE CONTINUED.
——rubente
Dextera sacras jaculatus arces
Terruit urbem.—Hor.
——Heaven’s eternal Sire,
With red right-arm, at his own temples hurl’d
His thunders, and alarm’d a guilty world.—Francis.
Some of Oisin’s expressions might justly shock the piety of St Patrick. But let it be remembered that Oisin is no convert to Christianity; on the contrary, he is opposed to it, principally because it had put an end to his favourite pastimes.