“Arise, winds of autumn, arise:  blow along the heath.  Streams of the mountains, roar; roar, tempests in the groves of my oaks!  Walk through broken clouds, O moon! show thy pale face at intervals; bring to my mind the night when all my children fell, when Arindal the mighty fell —­ when Daura the lovely failed.  Daura, my daughter, thou wert fair, fair as the moon on Fura, white as the driven snow, sweet as the breathing gale.  Arindal, thy bow was strong, thy spear was swift on the field, thy look was like mist on the wave, thy shield a red cloud in a storm!  Armar, renowned in war, came and sought Daura’s love.  He was not long refused:  fair was the hope of their friends.

“Erath, son of Odgal, repined:  his brother had been slain by Armar.  He came disguised like a son of the sea:  fair was his cliff on the wave, white his locks of age, calm his serious brow.  Fairest of women, he said, lovely daughter of Armin! a rock not distant in the sea bears a tree on its side; red shines the fruit afar.  There Armar waits for Daura.  I come to carry his love! she went she called on Armar.  Nought answered, but the son of the rock.  Armar, my love, my love! why tormentest thou me with fear?  Hear, son of Arnart, hear! it is Daura who calleth thee.  Erath, the traitor, fled laughing to the land.  She lifted up her voice—­ she called for her brother and her father.  Arindal!  Armin! none to relieve you, Daura.

“Her voice came over the sea.  Arindal, my son, descended from the hill, rough in the spoils of the chase.  His arrows rattled by his side; his bow was in his hand, five dark-gray dogs attended his steps.  He saw fierce Erath on the shore; he seized and bound him to an oak.  Thick wind the thongs of the hide around his limbs; he loads the winds with his groans.  Arindal ascends the deep in his boat to bring Daura to land.  Armar came in his wrath, and let fly the gray-feathered shaft.  It sung, it sunk in thy heart, O Arindal, my son! for Erath the traitor thou diest.  The oar is stopped at once:  he panted on the rock, and expired.  What is thy grief, O Daura, when round thy feet is poured thy brother’s blood.  The boat is broken in twain.  Armar plunges into the sea to rescue his Daura, or die.  Sudden a blast from a hill came over the waves; he sank, and he rose no more.

“Alone, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain; frequent and loud were her cries.  What could her father do?  All night I stood on the shore:  I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.  All night I heard her cries.  Loud was the wind; the rain beat hard on the hill.  Before morning appeared, her voice was weak; it died away like the evening breeze among the grass of the rocks.  Spent with grief, she expired, and left thee, Armin, alone.  Gone is my strength in war, fallen my pride among women.  When the storms aloft arise, when the north lifts the wave on high, I sit by the sounding shore, and look on the fatal rock.