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Title: The Irish Fairy Book

Author: Various

Editor: Alfred Perceval Graves

Release Date: May 1, 2010 [eBook #32202]

Language: English

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THE IRISH FAIRY BOOK

by

ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES

Illustrated by George Denham

London T FisherUnwin

All rights reserved.

A Faery Song

Sung by the people of faery over Diarmuid and Grania, who lay in
their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.

We who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told:

Give to these children, new from the world,
Silence and love;
And the long dew-dropping hours of the night,
And the stars above:

Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then:

Us who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told.

W. B. YEATS.

Contents

THE COMING OF FINN _Standish James O'Grady_ 1

THE THREE CROWNS _Patrick Kennedy_ 12

THE GRATEFUL BEASTS _Patrick Kennedy_ 25

THE LEPRACAUN _William Allingham_