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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THE DOOM OF OIFA.
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From the tribes of men fly Oifa,Pale outlaw of the air,
Till the wind shall cease to wail
For Eri and her woes!
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Go howl on the blast, howl OifaO'er the land where the Banshee cries:
In the shade of thy dragon wings
Fall horror of brooding fate.
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Abhorred of men, howl OifaO'er the mountains of Inisfail:
The Swans of Lir shall have comfort
Long ere thy end of woes.
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