imagination of itself, as in the Arabian
tales of enchantment men were changed by sorcerers who
cried, 'Be thou beast or bird.' So ...is the imagination
of life about itself changed and one will think he is a worm
in the sight of Heaven, he who is but a god in exile....
What palaces they were born in, what dominions they are
rightly heir to, are concealed from them as in the fairy
tale the stolen prince lives obscurely among the swineherd.
Yet at times men do not remember, in dreams or in the
deeps of sleep, they still wear sceptre and diadem and
partake of the banquet of the gods."

The Wrenboys still come to our door at Coole on
St. Stephen's Day, as they used in my childhood to come
to Roxborough, but it is in our bargain that the wren
itself must be symbolic, unmolested, no longer killed in
vengeance for that one in the olden times that awakened
the sentinels of the enemy Danes by pecking at crumbs
on a drum. And, indeed, these last two or three years
the rhymes concerning that old history have been lessened,
and their place taken by "The Soldiers Song."

I think the staging of the play is easy. The Ogre's hut
may be but a shallow front scene, a curtain that can be
drawn away. The masks are such as might be used by
Wrenboys, little paper ones, such as one finds in a Christmas
cracker, held on with a bit of elastic, and would help to
get the change into the eyes of the audience, which
Manannan's Mullein-dust may not have reached.

Air: "Shule Aroon"

[Music]

Air: "Mo Bhuachailin Buidhe"

_Brightly_
[Music]

Air: "The Bells of Shandon"

My brain grows rus-ty, my mind is dus-ty
The time I'm dwelling with the like of ye; While my spirit
rang-es through all the changes could turn the
world to fel-is-it-y When Ar-is-tot-le

[Music]

The Time I've Lost in Wooing

_Poco allegretto_
[Music]

My Molly-O
[Music]

Air: "O Donall Abu"

[Music]

The Bard of Armagh

_Slow_.
[Music]

Air: "Dear Harp of My Country"

[Music]

I wish I had the shepherd's lamb

I wish I had the shep-herd's lamb, the shep-herd's lamb, the
shepherd's lamb, I wish I had the shepherd's lamb, And
Ka-tie com-ing af-ter: Iso o gur-rim
gur-rim hoo iso gra-ma-chree gon kel-lig hoo, Iso
o gur-rim gur-rim hoo, Sthoo pat-tha beg dho wau-her.

[Music]

Air: "Let Erin Remember"

[Music]

Air: "And doth not a meeting like this"

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Garryowen

_Quickly_.
[Music]

Air: "O Bay of Dublin"

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