“"Whither hast thou fled, O wind?" said the king of Morven. "Dost thou rustle in the chambers of the south? pursuest thou the shower in other lands? Why dost thou not come to my sails? to the blue face of my seas?"”

— James Macpherson

"Lathmon"
The Poems of Ossian

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Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician 1736–1796

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