MAUNSEL AND CO., LIMITED,
96, MID. ABBEY ST., DUBLIN
1909
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TO
THE LADY OF THE RING
Thanks are due to Messrs. Harrap & Co., London,for permission to include in this volume threepoems which are introduced into the writer’sforthcoming prose book, “The High Deeds ofFinn and other Bardic Romances of AncientIreland.” The poems in question are Cois naTeineadh, Midir the Proud, and the Song ofFinn. Some others have appeared in the Spectator,the Irish Homestead, and the Westminster Gazette,to the editors of which acknowledgments are due.
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| SEA SPRAY | 7 |
| MARCH WINDS | 10 |
| MIDIR THE PROUD INVITES QUEEN ETAIN TO FAIRYLAND | 12 |
| THE SPELL-STRUCK | 14 |
| COIS AN TEINEADH | 15 |
| WILLIAM MORRIS | 17 |
| TO JOHN O’LEARY | 18 |
| THE GRAVE OF RURY | 19 |
| SONG OF MAELDUIN | 21 |
| THE SHANNON AT FOYNES | 22 |
| SONNET | 23 |
| A RAILWAY JOURNEY | 24 |
| CYCLING SONG | 28 |
| BALLADE OF THE “CHESHIRE CHEESE“ | 31 |
| DORA | 33 |
| A RING’S SECRET | 34 |
| MOONRISE IN THE ELSTER TANNEN-WALD | 35 |
| AFTER ALL | 36 |
| EVENSONG | 37 |
| IN MEMORIAM: J. T. C. H. | 39 |