Poets and Dreamers - Studies and translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory
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'No flower in any garden, and the leaves of the trees have leave to cry, and they falling on the ground. There is no green flower on the tops of the tufts, since there did a boarded coffin go on Daly. 'There is sorrow on the men of mirth, a clouding over the day, and no trout swim in the river. Orpheus on the harp, he lifted up everyone out of their habits; and he that stole what Argus was watching the time he took away Io; Apollo, as we read, gave them teaching, and Daly was better than all these musicians. 'A hundred wouldn't be able to put together his actions and his deeds and his many good works. And Raftery says this much for Daly, because he liked him.' Though his praises are usually all for the poor, for the people, he has left one beautiful lament for a landowner:-- 'There's no dew or grass on Cluan Leathan. The cuckoo is not to be seen on the furze; the leaves are withering and the trees complaining of the cold. There is no sun or moon in the air or in the sky, or no light in the stars coming down, with the stretching of O'Kelly in the grave. 'My grief to tell it! he to be laid low; the man that did not bring grief or trouble on any heart, that would give help to those that were down. 'No light on the day like there was; the fruits not growing; no children on the breast; there's no return in the grain; the plants |
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