Fairy Legends and Traditions by Thomas Crofton Croker [1825]

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XXVI
DEDICATORY LETTER.
From thence away, with mild Luay—but him thou left
dangers,
And rush'd to war with fierce Balar, and necromantic strangers.
Milesian barks contended then with more than stormy ocean
Against the blast of magic cast, in wild and strange commotion.
for
Thence far remote, with Naoise of note, thou dwelt in lonely
places
Yet doth thy field,
Murthen£, yield of mighty deeds some
traces.
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Chief of the battle field, to thee Conn owes his hundred fights
For thou to Spain led o*er the main Egan, who fled his rights
To Finn thou gave thy powerful aid on Traha's shore of
slaughter,
Where the battle cry pealed to the
as water.
sky, and blood poured free
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Since that day's strife thou led a life of feasting and of sleeping ;
And where's the need, for me indeed, to tell of thy housekeeping ?
Fair chief, whose beauty far exceeds the blossom of that flowery
Lord of the gray and mossy rock, smooth hill and pleasant
bower, &c.
On Knock Uaish and Knock Firinn, I must
append Mr. O'Reilly's note 3
as it establishes