The Foray of Queen Meave And Other Legends of Irelands Heroic Age
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Finola lay, once more an eight years' child : Upon her right hand Aodh took his rest, Upon her left Fiacre ; in death he smiled : Her little Conn was cradled on her breast : And all their saintly raiment shone as bright As sea-foam sparkling on a moonlit night ; Or as their snowy night-clothes shone of old When now the night was past, and Lir, their sire, Upraised them from the warm cot's silken fold, And bade them watch the sun's ascending fire, And watched himself its beam, now here now there..., Flashed from white foot, blue eyes, or golden hair. 1 14 The Children of Lir. The men who saw that deathbed did not weep, But gazed till sunset upon each fair face ; And then with funeral psalm, and anthems deep, Interred them at that sacred altar's base, And graved their names in Ogham characters On one white tomb ; and, close beneath them, Lir's. Those Babes were Erin's Holy Innocents, And first-fruits of the land to Christ their Lord, Though born within the unbelievers' tents : Figured in them the Gael his God adored, That later-coming, holier Gael, who won Through Faith the birthright, though the younger son THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE 'THE TAIN BO CUAILGNE 1 FIVE FRAGMENTS OF AN ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TO SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON THIS POEM IS DEDICATED, IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR 'CONGAL, ' AND FOR MANY POEMS BESIDE, THAT ILLUSTRATE ARIGHT THE LEGENDS OF ANCIENT IRELAND.
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