Bards of the Gael And Gall; Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn, Done Into English After the Metres And Modes of the Gael
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O'er the plains, sweet-voiced, tender, Beam many hues in splendour, Joys, with music, gently crowd The south plain of Silver Cloud. 1 " Voyage of Bran " (Nutt). On a day, Bran heard entrancing music ; when he awoke, he saw a woman with a flowering apple-branch of silver and crystal, who sang this lay. It gives a picture of the Ancient Paradise of the Gael — their " limbus patrum." The bard endeavours to harmonise it with the new doctrine of Christianity. THE CHRISTIAN DAWN 159 There deceit nor ...wailing is In that fruitful land of bliss, Naught rude or rugged showeth But soft, sweet music floweth. Grief or darkness none, nor death, 111, nor any harm it hath.* This tells of Emain's 2 glory ; Where else such wondrous story ? 'Tis the beauty of things bright, Loveliness is in its sight, Cheer it gives hearts all cheerless, Its halo-haze is peerless. In the Valley Bountiful Rubies show'r, and gems we cull ; Billows beat the shore, and rain Crystal hairs from ocean's mane.3 * These and other verses are evidently the originals of passages in " The Pricke of Conscience " and in the " Land of Cokaigne," e.g.
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