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The Saxons had met, and the banquet was spread, And the wine in fleet circles the jubilee led; And the banners that hung round the festal that night, Seemed brighter by far tfian when lifted in fight. 72 THE LAUREL SPEAKER II. In came the O'Kavanagh, fair as the morn, When earth to new beauty and vigor is born; They shrank from his glance like the waves from the prow, For nature's nobihty sat on his brow. III. Attended alone by his vassal and bard; No trumpet to herald — no clansmen to guard — ...He came not attended by steed or by steel : No danger he knew, for no fear did he feel. IV. In eye and on lip his high confidence smiled — So proud, yet so knightly — so gallant, yet mild; He moved like a god through the light of that hall. And a smile, full of courtliness, proffered to all. "Come pledge us, lord chieftain! come pledge us!" they cried; Unsuspectingly free to the pledge he replied ; And this was the peace-branch O'Kavanagh bore: "The friendships to come, not the feuds that are o'er.
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