Three Irish Bardic Tales Being Metrical Versions of the Three Tales known as The Three Sorrows of Story-telling. By John Todhunter |
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FIANOULA'S PRATER.
A boon, a boon, O mother,For the sorrowful Children of Lir!
Sad is the voice of children
In the terrors of the night.
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Fear in the witch's heart was gendering with her hate,Seeing her evil thought grown to an evil deed;
And on her tongue was laid a spell more strong than hers,
In fear, not ruth, she spake this lightening of their doom:
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