Irish legend quotes

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We who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told:
Among those feasting men Cuchulain dwelt,
And his young sweetheart close beside him knelt,
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Cuchulain stirred,
Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard
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"My eyes are blinking," Dathi said,
"With the secrets of God half blind,
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And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke
All manner of blessed souls,
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There was a green branch hung with many a bell
When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;
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When cups went round at close of day
Is not that how good stories run?
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I wander on, and wave my hands,
And sing, and shake my heavy locks.
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I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
My word was law from Ith to Emain,
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And found on the dove-grey edge of the sea
A pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode
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