O woman, shapely as the swan,
On your account I shall not die:
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HERE Pilate's Court is:
None may clatter nor call
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THE well-
They come to it and take
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The Swallows sang
ALIEN to us are
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NOT fingers that e'er felt
Fine things within their hold
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THE smith who made the manacles,
With bar and bolt, and link and ring,
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People in the Legend
FARDORROUGHA A Farmer
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A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.
Characters:
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IT was pure indeed,
The air we breathed in, the light we saw,
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ON the third day from this (Saint Brendan said)
I will be where no wind that filled a sail
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The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,
Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:
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FIRST GIRL
MALLO lero iss im bo nero!
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WRITTEN TO THE LONDONDERRY AIR
"Tira autumn sun your shadow's flung, my Cahill,
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SOJOURNER, set down
Your skimming wheel;
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SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimes
With Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymes
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As I went down through Dublin city
At the hour of twelve of the night,
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FROM THE IRISH
I’d bring you these for dowry
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STRIDE the hill, Sower,
Up to the sky ridge,
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IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet,
Nor my wake house a silent place :
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THE little moths are creeping
Across the cottage pane;
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In The Farmer's House
I'M glad to lie on a sack of leaves
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A MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG
(A Young Girl sings it)
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IN companies or lone
They bend their heads, their hands
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OH I wish the sun was bright in the sky,
And the fox was back in his den O!
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FOR the poor body that I own
I could weep many a tear:
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NOR right, nor left, nor any road I see a comrade face,
Nor word to lift the heart in me I hear in any place;
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WE wander now who marched before,
Hawking our bran from door to door,
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'Tis long since, long since, since I heard
A tin-whistle played,
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ERE Beowulf's song
Was heard from the ships,
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AUTUMN
A GOOD stay-at-home season is Autumn: then there's
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