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143 To Ireland in the Coming Times 145 The Land of Heart's Desire 149 Crossways— The Song of the Happy Shepherd 197 The Sad Shepherd 200 The Cloak, The Boat, and the Shoes 202 Anashuya and Vijaya 203 The Indian upon God 209 The Indian to his Love 211 The Falling of the Leaves 213 Ephemera 214 The Madness of King Goll 216 The Stolen Child 220 To an Isle in the Water 223 Down by the Salley Gardens 224 The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 225 The Ballad of Father O'Hart 226 The Ballad of Moll Magee 229 The Ballad of the Foxhunter 232 The Wanderings of Usheen 235 Glossary and Notes 299

TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE

While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times
When we bent down above the fading coals;
And talked of the dark folk, who live in souls
Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;
And of the wayward twilight companies,
Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content,
Because their blossoming dreams have never bent
Under the fruit of evil and of good:
And of the embattled flaming multitude
Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,
And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,
And with the clashing of their sword blades make
A rapturous music, till the morning break,
And the white hush end all, but the loud beat
Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet.

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN

"The sorrowful are dumb for thee"

Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke

TO
MAUD GONNE

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The Scene is laid in Ireland and in old times

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