The Old Age Of Queen Maeve
Mirrored in streams t neither hail nor rain
Nor troubled?
he replied,
quot;I am from those rivers and I bid you call
t of sleep,
And set them digging under Buals hill.
e s hy housc,
ill overthrow his shadows and carry off
Caer, er t I love.
I these walls,
And I would need,
Queen of high Cruachan.
quot;I obey your will
it and a most t:
For you he birds,
Our giver of good counsel and good luck.
And al breath
Could but awaken sadly upon lips
t urned
Face doossing in a troubled sleep;
But Maeve, and not ,
Came to ted house
, and cried aloud,
Until to stir
iting and the clang of unhooked arms.
Sold the many-changing ones;
And all t nig day
to middle nigo the hill.
At middle nig cats h silver claws,
Bodies of shadow and blind eyes like pearls,
Came up out of the hole, and red-eared hounds
ite bodies came out of the air
Suddenly, and ran at them.
t; cood
its and terror-stricken faces,
till Maeve called out, quot;t common men.
t dropped their spades
Because Earts broken power,
Casts up a S
it was glad,
And whe grass
S footfall in t,
till it died out ood.
Friend of too ood
it w;
For you, alt ,
greatness, and not hers alone,
For tory about queens
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