“Cease a little while, O wind! stream, be thou silent awhile! let my voice be heard around! let my wanderer hear me!  Salgar! it is Colma who calls.  Here is the tree and the rock.  Salgar, my love, I am here!  Why delayest thou thy coming?  Lo! the calm moon comes forth.  The flood is bright in the vale.  The rocks are gray on the steep.  I see him not on the brow.  His dogs come not before him with tidings of his near approach.  Here I must sit alone!

“Who lie on the heath beside me?  Are they my love and my brother?  Speak to me, O my friends!  To Colma they give no reply.  Speak to me:  I am alone!  My soul is tormented with fears.  Ah, they are dead!  Their swords are red from the fight.  O my brother! my brother! why hast thou slain my Salgar!  Why, O Salgar, hast thou slain my brother!  Dear were ye both to me! what shall I say in your praise?  Thou wert fair on the hill among thousands! he was terrible in fight!  Speak to me! hear my voice! hear me, sons of my love!  They are silent! silent for ever!  Cold, cold, are their breasts of clay!  Oh, from the rock on the hill, from the top of the windy steep, speak, ye ghosts of the dead!  Speak, I will not be afraid!  Whither are ye gone to rest?  In what cave of the hill shall I find the departed?  No feeble voice is on the gale:  no answer half drowned in the storm!

“I sit in my grief:  I wait for morning in my tears!  Rear the tomb, ye friends of the dead.  Close it not till Colma come.  My life flies away like a dream.  Why should I stay behind?  Here shall I rest with my friends, by the stream of the sounding rock.  When night comes on the hill when the loud winds arise my ghost shall stand in the blast, and mourn the death of my friends.  The hunter shall hear from his booth; he shall fear, but love my voice!  For sweet shall my voice be for my friends:  pleasant were her friends to Colma.

“Such was thy song, Minona, softly blushing daughter of Torman.  Our tears descended for Colma, and our souls were sad!  Ullin came with his harp; he gave the song of Alpin.  The voice of Alpin was pleasant, the soul of Ryno was a beam of fire!  But they had rested in the narrow house:  their voice had ceased in Selma!  Ullin had returned one day from the chase before the heroes fell.  He heard their strife on the hill:  their song was soft, but sad!  They mourned the fall of Morar, first of mortal men!  His soul was like the soul of Fingal:  his sword like the sword of Oscar.  But he fell, and his father mourned:  his sister’s eyes were full of tears.  Minona’s eyes were full of tears, the sister of car-borne Morar.  She retired from the song of Ullin, like the moon in the west, when she foresees the shower, and hides her fair head in a cloud.  I touched the harp with Ullin:  the song of morning rose!

“Ryno.  The wind and the rain are past, calm is the noon of day.  The clouds are divided in heaven.  Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun.  Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill.  Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear.  It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead!  Bent is his head of age:  red his tearful eye.  Alpin, thou son of song, why alone on the silent hill? why complainest thou, as a blast in the wood as a wave on the lonely shore?