SEA SPRAY: VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS BY T. W. ROLLESTON

MAUNSEL AND CO., LIMITED, 96, MID. ABBEY ST., DUBLIN 1909 All rights reserved

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TO THE LADY OF THE RING

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Thanks are due to Messrs. Harrap & Co., London, for permission to include in this volume three poems which are introduced into the writer’s forthcoming prose book, “The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland.” The poems in question are Cois na Teineadh, Midir the Proud, and the Song of Finn. 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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TRANSLATIONS

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SEA SPRAY

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MARCH WINDS

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MIDIR THE PROUD INVITES QUEEN ETAIN TO FAIRYLAND[1]

[1] This poem is based on an Irish original in “The Courtship of Etain.” See Leahy’s Heroic Romances of Ireland, vol. i., p. 26.

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THE SPELL-STRUCK

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COIS NA TEINEADH

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WILLIAM MORRIS

† Oct. 4, 1896

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TO JOHN O’LEARY

Dedication of a Book of Irish Verses by various hands[2]

[2] “Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 1888.”

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THE GRAVE OF RURY

Ruraidh O’Conchobhar, last High King of Ireland, spent the closing fifteen years of his life in the monastery of St. Fechin at Cong, Co. Mayo. His grave is still shown in that most beautiful and pathetic of Irish ruins. Some accounts have it that his remains were afterwards transferred to Clonmacnois by the Shannon.

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