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BEING MAINLY RENDERINGS IN

ENGLISH VERSE FROM

IRISH & WELSH

POETRY

ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES

TO THE

RIGHT HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I. Irish Poems

THE ISLE OF THE HAPPY

THE WISDOM OF KING CORMAC

IRISH TRIADS

Lays of the Irish Saints

ST. PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER

THE BREASTPLATE OF ST. PATRICK

ST. PATRICK'S EVENSONG

ST. COLUMBA'S GREETING TO IRELAND

ST. COLUMBA IN IONA

HAIL, BRIGIT!

THE DEVIL'S TRIBUTE TO MOLING

THE HYMN OF ST. PHILIP

Lays of Monk and Hermit

THE SCRIBE

THE HERMIT'S SONG

CRINOG

KING AND HERMIT

ON ÆNGUS THE CULDEE

THE SHAVING OF MURDOCH

ON THE FLIGHTINESS OF THOUGHT

THE MONK AND HIS WHITE CAT

Invocations and Reflections

A PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN

MAELISU'S HYMN TO THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL

MAELISU'S HYMN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

EVE'S LAMENTATION

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THE KINGS WHO CAME TO CHRIST

Quatrains

HOSPITALITY

THE BLACKBIRD

MOLING SANG THIS

THE CHURCH BELL IN THE NIGHT

THE CRUCIFIXION

THE PILGRIM AT ROME

ON A DEAD SCHOLAR

Charms and Invocations

CHARMS AGAINST SORROW

ON COVERING THE FIRE FOR THE NIGHT

MORNING WISH

A CHARM AGAINST ENEMIES

CHARM FOR A PAIN IN THE HEART

THE SAFE-GUARDING OF MY SOUL

THE WHITE PATERNOSTER.

Lamentations

THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE

THE DESERTED HOME

THE MOTHERS' LAMENT AT THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

THE KEENING OF MARY

CAOINE

Songs to Music

BATTLE HYMN

THE SONG OF THE WOODS

THE ENCHANTED VALLEY

REMEMBER THE POOR

II. Welsh Poems

THE ODES TO THE MONTHS

THE TERCETS

HAIL, GLORIOUS LORD!

MY BURIAL

THE LAST CYWYDD

THE LABOURER

THE ELEGY ON SION GLYN, A CHILD OF FIVE YEARS OF AGE

THE NOBLE'S GRAVE

THE BARD'S DEATH-BED CONFESSION

QUICK, DEATH!

COUNSEL IN VIEW OF DEATH

FROM "THE LAST JUDGMENT"

A GOOD WIFE

"MARCHOG JESU!"

THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM

LOVE DIVINE

BEHIND THE VEIL

THE REIGN OF LOVE

PLAS GOGERDDAN

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

DAVID OF THE WHITE ROCK

THE HIGH TIDE

"ORA PRO NOBIS"

A FLOWER-SUNDAY LULLABY

THE BALLAD OF THE OLD BACHELOR OF TY'N Y MYNYDD

THE QUEEN'S DREAM

THE WELSH FISHERMEN

III. Old and New Testament Studies

DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN

THE FIERY FURNACE

RUTH AND NAOMI

THE LILIES OF THE FIELD AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR

THE GOOD PHYSICIAN

THE SOWER

THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN

ST. MARY MAGDALEN

IV. Church Festivals

A CHRISTMAS COMMUNION HYMN

A CHRISTMAS CAROL OF THE EPIPHANY

A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY CAROL

EARTH'S EASTER

EASTER DAY, 1915

THE ASCENSION

WHITSUNTIDE

HARVEST HYMN

V. Good and Faithful Servants

FATHER O'FLYNN

LADY GWENNY

OLD DOCTOR MACK

TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN OWEN

SAINT CUTHBERT

ALFRED THE GREAT

SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON

"MEN, NOT WALLS, MAKE A CITY"

FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER

INSCRIPTION FOR A ROLL OF HONOUR IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL

AN EPITAPH

AN INTERCESSIONAL ANSWERED

VI. Personal and Various

LET THERE BE JOY!

A HOLIDAY HYMN

SUMMER MORNING'S WALK

SNOW-STAINS

REMEMBRANCE

SANDS OF GOLD

THE MOURNER

DE PROFUNDIS

IMMORTAL HOPE

WE HAD A CHILD

HE HAS COME BACK

SPRING'S SECRETS

THE LORD'S LEISURE

SPRING IS NOT DEAD

AIM NOT TOO HIGH

WILD WINE OF NATURE

BRIDAL INVOCATION

THE COMING OF SIR GALAHAD AND A VISION OF THE GRAIL

ASK WHAT THOU WILT