...hear. sometimes, the ghosts of bards, and learn their pleasant song. But memory fails in my mind. 1 hear the call of years! They say, as they pass along,...the narrow house, and no bard shall raise his fame! . . . The sons of song are gone to rest. My voice remains, like a blast, that roars, lonely, on a sea-surrounded...

...hear, sometimes, the ghosts of bards, and learn their pleasant song. But memory fails in my mind; 1 hear the call of years. They say, as they pass along,...the narrow house, and no bard shall raise his fame. [...] Let the tomb open to Ossian, for his strength has failed. The sons of song are gone to rest:...

...failed. I hear, sometimes, the ghosts of bards, and learn their pleasant song. But memory fails in my mind; I hear the call of years. They say, as they...lie in the narrow house, and no bard shall raise his fame.41 ' Erst am Ende von Berrathon beschwört Ossian die eigene Fortexistenz prophetisch herauf,...

...away: "But age is now on my tongue; and my soul has failed. . . . But memory fails in my mind; I heard the call of years. They say, as they pass along, why...the narrow house, and no bard shall raise his fame" (Ossian, ed. Gaskill, 170). What remedies this situation is, predictably, the bard's ability to preserve...

...passages : " But age is now on my tongue ; my soul has failed ! I hear at times the ghosts of bards and learn their pleasant song. But memory fails on my...!' Roll on, ye dark-brown years : ye bring no joy in your course ! Let the tomb open to Ossian, for his strength has failed." How the memory of the happy...