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0. "When I reflected on my dear,
I put this thoug'ht in execution ;
I lay beside her without disguise,
Because she was meet to be my wife.
As the Fenians reached their houses,
In groups of threes and fours and fives,
To behold the most noble woman,
It was not indifferent to them who sliould be first.
When the headless being came,
There was then in the glen ; on our coming.
Many a druid of high repute,
Ten hundred hounds and ten hundred steeds.
Ten hundred steeds with their bridles,
Ten hundred hounds with their leashes ;
Ten hundred servitors in whom was strength.
Ten hundred heroes in our ranks.
Ten hundred goblets made of gold,
Ten hundred excellent swords and shields ;
Were it a boast for me, [there were] ten hundred
cows,
I bestowed them on my love in one day.
She gives a ring to the generous Oisin [and says],
'Tis time I should depart for my home ; [this,
Thou wilt obtain every thing thou desirest from
So that water will not touch it.
A swallow flew among the Fenians,
And carried off the ring towards a lake ;
The ring disappeared ever since.
Without any tidings of it unto this night.
in it are the ruins of an abbey of Regular Canons founded in the sixth
century by that saint, who was its first abbot. Here was buried Ray.
mond Le Gros, one of the co-adventurers with ytrongbow in the invasion
of Ireland.— Smith's Waterford, p. 43.