fall to the ground?" He meant by that that he didn't give up the names
of the other Whiteboys. And at the end he called down judgment from God
on the two Z's, and, if not on them, on their children. And they that
had land and farms in all parts, lost it after; and all they had
vanished; and the most of their children died--only two left, one a
friar, and the other living in the town.' And quite lately I have been
told by another neighbour, in corroboration, that a girl of the Z family
married into a family near his home the other day, and was coldly
received; and when my neighbour asked one of the family why this was, he
was told that 'those of her people that went so high ought to have gone
higher'--meaning that they themselves ought to have been on the gallows;
and then he knew that Raftery's curse was still having its effect. And
he had also heard that the grass had never grown again at Seefin.

This is a part of the song:--

'The evening of Friday of the Crucifixion, the Gael was under the
mercy of the Gall. It was as heavy the same day as when the only
Son of Mary was on the tree. I have hope in the Son of God, my
grief! and it is of no use for me; and it was Conall and his wife
hung Daly, and may they be paid for it!

'But oh! young woman, while I live, I put death on the village
where you will be; plague and death on it; and may the flood rise
over it; that much is no sin at all, O bright God; and I pray with
longing it may fall on the man that hung Daly; that left his people
and his children crying.

'O stretch out your limbs! The air is murky overhead; there is
darkness on the sun, and the fish do not leap in the water; there