by James Macpherson (pretending to translate "Ossian") (1736 - 1796)
Why art thou so dark, Slimora!
Language: English
Why art thou so dark, Slimora! With all thy silent woods? No green star Trembles on thy top; No moon-beam on thy side. But the meteors of death Are there, and The grey wat'ry forms of ghosts. Why art thou dark, Slimora! With thy silent woods?
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Confirmed with The Poems of Ossian, vol. I, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1805, page 358. Appears in The Death of Cuthullin.
Text Authorship:
- by James Macpherson (pretending to translate "Ossian") (1736 - 1796), no title, appears in The Death of Cuchullin [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Wilhelm Petersen (1758 - 1815) , no title [an adaptation] ; composed by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg.
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