SING of the O’Rahilly, Do not deny his right; Sing a 'the’ before his name; Allow that he, despite All those learned historians,

THERE is a queen in China, or maybe i… And birthdays and holidays such praises… Of her unblemished lineaments, a whitene… That she might be that sprightly girl wh… And there’s a score of duchesses, surpas…

Hic. ON the grey sand beside the shallo… Under your old wind-beaten tower, where… A lamp burns on beside the open book That Michael Robartes left, you walk in… And though you have passed the best of l…

I MADE my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it,

I wander by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge: Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round,

BECAUSE there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible to a man of sense. Distrustful of thar popular eye

We sat under an old thorn-tree And talked away the night, Told all that had been said or done Since first we saw the light, And when we talked of growing up

‘ALTHOUGH I’d lie lapped up in linen A deal I’d sweat and little earn If I should live as live the neighbours… Cried the beggar, Billy Byrne; ‘Stretch bones till the daylight come

SHE is foremost of those that I would… I have gone about the house, gone up and… As a man does who has published a new bo… Or a young girl dressed out in her new g… And though I have turned the talk by ho…

He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push That dragon through the fading light, Loved the lady; and it’s plain

Overcome—O bitter sweetness, Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl— The rich man and his affairs, The fat flocks and the fields’ fatness, Mariners, rough harvesters;