Crossword-Solution: DUAN 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The desire of getting out of the reach of the Galles made us press forward with great expedition, and, indeed, fear having entirely engrossed our minds, we were perhaps less sensible of all our labours and difficulties; so violent an apprehension of one danger made us look on many others with unconcern; our pains at last found some intermission at the foot of the mountains of Duan, the frontier of Abyssinia, which separates it from the country of the Moors, through which we had travelled.

When Ossian hears the traditions of inferior bards, he exclaims,— “I straightway seize the unfutile tales, And send them down in faithful verse.” His philosophy of life is expressed in the opening of the third Duan of Ca-Lodin.

And now these songs and deeds were echoing in English ears,--the thrumming of the harp which told of "the stream of those olden years, where they have so long hid, in their mist, their many-colored sides." (_Cathloda_, Duan III.) So enthusiastically were these poems received, that a subscription was raised to enable Macpherson to travel in the Highlands, and collect more of this lingering and beautiful poetry.

Take, _e.g._, the closing passage of the second "Duan," or book, of "Fingal." "An arrow found his manly breast.

This passage may remind the reader of Burns's vest of Coila, in his "Vision, Duan First." The resemblance was unintentional.