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“Tell me that tale of Cuhoolin, Emer, reveal it to me,
As once was thy promise: 'tis thou that alone canst relate it aright:
How, from the wiles of the beautiful Fand, the immortal, the goddess, thou settest him free,
Leading him back, by the lure of thy love, to be chief of the heroes of Eirë for ever.”
Thus spake the Bard of Cooalni, agèd and grey, to the lady,
The fair-browed Emer, agèd and grey:
Who answered him: “Yea, it is meet that I tell it,
And thou shalt record it,
That a mem'ry to all generations the tale of his tempting be.”
As once was thy promise: 'tis thou that alone canst relate it aright:
How, from the wiles of the beautiful Fand, the immortal, the goddess, thou settest him free,
Leading him back, by the lure of thy love, to be chief of the heroes of Eirë for ever.”
Thus spake the Bard of Cooalni, agèd and grey, to the lady,
The fair-browed Emer, agèd and grey:
Who answered him: “Yea, it is meet that I tell it,
And thou shalt record it,
That a mem'ry to all generations the tale of his tempting be.”
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