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 “ Tho' alt this, no doubt, is mere matter of guess, Tis certain ere letters were known. Our fathers recorded great deeds in the way Which wo see upon this very stone.

" But how died Finella ? ” I ask’d of the sage. He answer’d—“ Real records are lost; But tradition hath told that she took her own life In a deep rocky den near the coast— That she leapt from the cliffs to a wild boiling pool, Where her body was torn and tost! *

“ And ’tis written,” he added, “ that proofs were beheld Of Heaven’s dread vengeance and ire; That it rained mighty showers, and blew mighty winds, And the sun and the moon were like fire !

“ That Finella’s fine castle was raz’d to the ground, And left as is yet to he seen, A mass of extensive, but unshaply ruins, On the top of a hillock so green, †

“ But this tragic story thou surely had’st known, And of our Apostle heard tell; For many more tales, unsung and unwrote, Could‘be told of ! ”