This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...And on these hands that may not lift the sword, This body trembling like a wind-blown reed. No maiden loves me, no man seeks my help, Because I be not of the things I dream. FERGUS. A wild and foolish labourer is a king, To do and do and do, and never dream. DRUID. Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams; Unloose ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...And on these hands that may not lift the sword, This body trembling like a wind-blown reed. No maiden loves me, no man seeks my help, Because I be not of the things I dream. FERGUS. A wild and foolish labourer is a king, To do and do and do, and never dream. DRUID. Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams; Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. FERGUS. I see my life go dripping like a stream From change to change; I have been many things, A green drop in the surge, a gleam of light Upon a sword, a fir-tree on a hill, An old slave grinding at a heavy quern, A king sitting upon a chair of gold, And all these things were wonderful and great; But now I have grown nothing, being all, And the whole world weighs down upon my heart: Ah! Druid, Druid, how great webs of sorrow Lay hidden in the small slate-coloured thing! THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN A MAN came slowly from the setting sun, To Forgail's daughter, Emer, in her dun, And found her dyeing cloth with subtle care, And said, casting aside his draggled hair: 'I am Aleel, the swineherd, whom you bid Go dwell upon the sea cliffs, vapour-hid; But now my years of watching are no more.' Then Emer cast the web upon the floor, And stretching out her arms, red with the dye, Parted her lips with a loud sudden cry. Looking on her, Aleel, the swineherd, said: 'Not any god alive, nor mortal dead, Has slain so mighty armies, so great kings, Nor won the gold that now Cuchulain brings.' ' Why do you tremble thus from feet to crown?' Aleel, the swineherd, wept and cast him down Upon the web-heaped floor, and thus his word: 'With him is one sweet-throated like a bird, And lovelier than the moon upon the sea; He made for her an army cease to be.' 'Who bade you ...
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