...the verses. The interest of the comparison will be found to extend beyond the matter of form: OSSIAN. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western way; but thou thyself movest alone. WALT WHITMAN. Thou orb aloft full-dazzling, thou hot October noon!...

...Macpherson's Ossian addresses the sun in "Carthon", the dawn is an image of neither hope nor rebirth: Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou...

...appeared a second time, charging forward with a shield to utter in bloodcurdling accents Ossian's lines, "O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers." Finally Louy topped the festivities with the recitation of "Geehale — An Indian Lament," and the...

...feeble voice. — The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon: I feel it warm around. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; and the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou...

...well voiced in the poems of Ossian: Whence are thy beams, 0 Sun, thy everlasting light? Thou eomest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves...the "western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. It is impossible for us, with our accurate knowledge of the natural causes that produce the phenomenon...