¡¶The Secret Rose¡· DEDICATION TO A.E. As for living, our servants for us. ??_Villiers de LIsle Adam. , and wondered wwice been carried away.??Leonardo da Vinci. My dear A.E.??I dedicate to you because, ten, you asies of its personages, perhan I do myself. Alte tories at different times and in different manners, and any definite plan, t one subject, tual ural order; and e suco anyone but to you, t of modern Ireland asy into verse? My friends in Ireland sometimes ask me e a really national poem or romance, and by a national poem or romance I understand to mean a poem or romance founded upon some famous moment of Irisory, and built up out of ts and feelings riotic Iris poetry and romance cannot be made by t conscientious study of famous moments and of ts and feelings of ot only by looking into t little, infinite, faltering, eternal flame t er erest a certain people among o tory, t to c cances of art. So far, is Irisill predominantly Celtic, t of vision, o to there. .B. YEAtS. TO THE SECRET ROSE Far off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my t t, dir And tumult of defeated dreams; and deep Among pale eyelids y. Your great leaves enfold t beards, torcill vain frenzy a of till a ed, and t among ained il er and ears A midnigress, A little stolen tress. I too a t t of a smit secret, and inviolate Rose? THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST A man, o toi?coloured doublet, and ed s. Also ing and sleeping places rayed from toe Friars and totlements to a ro against ttle to to t empty, for ttering about t , just suctered: If it oning or be o ing your feet! I t tree of deat of barbarous lands, or t tning, e Dat t of tain, ten oot ts of the deep sea. o foot, and t came out upon lemented gate, and t?o t udded nails, and , er, and of ?ook a glourf on a so a big and naked outrey rused a rusones of t turf upon tub in a far corner. t back to o blourf t ligra tra ligook off ed sub out of t of ; but ter y t see ttom. eaten all t day; so e mucub, but took up t into it, and t out te, for till give o drunken t tasted, to make ful. Noo from raiger ter and ill?smelling. t it broke against te to about . But no sooner did ouc t to t? tomed to succries, on tside; so ied tub and began to beat t, till to t ailed of sleep. ails me! sed Cum t as t t as many as t t of a lay brotten God? and is not ter in tter and as ill?smelling as t?er t s t, and back to oo sleepy to talk . And Cum on beating at tly once more, and cried out at yrannous race of friars, persecutors of ters of life and joy! O race t does not draell trut melts t! Gleeman, said t in my nico o you t it is tery, our gracious abbot, wravellers. You may sleep, said Cum. And tub upside doood upon it, and began to sing in a very loud voice. t, so t up in bed and bleil to get a noise, said t. is happening? It is a gleeman, said ter in t?er, and of t. And noions. Is he cursing in rhyme? wo assonances in every line of his curse. t pulled ?cap off and crumpled it in c of a pond, for in Connaug yet abandoned t tonsure for tyle to use. If somereet, and t to the robbers upon Ben Bulben. Ser in a jug, clean foot?er, and a ne, and make Benignus, and by t no bond be lacking, not to tell o treet, and t the robbers upon Ben Bulben? Neitron nor t all, said t; for to?morro day to curse ell anot ?urn o curse, and my name eadfastness of purpose upon t only under roofs and bettle olf, Brotrick, Broter. And take t o sing. And in t t make he louder, we will crucify him. ther. t make anot make an end of and sleep in peace and before blessed Saint Benignus, and sour t Day, o spare an enemy of irring up te in all ts, aler t, and ts of t God and C and ts. cap over o s out to sleep. ttle olf, Brotrick, Broter sitting up in bed, and up. to t at terwards called Buckleys Ford. Gleeman, said to t? I speak true! And and learning, but I ever glorify our gracious abbot, and Benignus our Patron, and t and orderly, but yours is like t I could for you, being also a man of many ts, but who could help such a one as you? Friend, ans bloo and fro, and up and dos many to my mind and out of my mind, and t, ild nigeettering he cold. t and to ready to be crucified, and led of t?ill stood upon tep a flock of great grass?barnacles passed ed o t grass?barnacles, tarry a little, and mayravel o te places of to t te a cro to beg from any traveller or pilgrim in t? and to a place in t some distance, one doo t lengtood round talking and gesticulating. t t off anoter piece of upon t. So t it upon o be on top of to stop and see ricks of Aengus tle? ed. t to t of after a o stop and for ts of Conan tales, again bade ake up ill became to listen to suco stop and ory of e?breasted Deirdre, and o serve o en longings in ts. So t to the hill. o top, took to dig a o stand it in, hemselves. I ask a favour before I die, says Cumhal. e you no more delays, says t. I ask no more delays, for I old trutent. ould you, then, confess? By sun and moon, not I; I ask but to be let eat t. I carry food in my taste of it unless I am en nowo days. You may eat, t, and urned to he hole. took a loaf and some strips of cold fried bacon out of and laid tito t a tent from t? And t clamour, for tory of ty, and t er from the bogs. ened for a little, and, says , for I ravelled tattered doublet of particoloured clotorn pointed s oy full of noble raiment ling of tle tle?ed, and more full of ty of laugears te?breasted Deirdre, and more lovely ting dao t are lost in tito myself; but yet, because I am done unto you. So rips of bacon among t il t scrap en. But mean uprig t, and trampled it level and a tared on, sitting round t o go, for tting ctle ay, outcasts, yet a little s and t tcasts, so tones and mud at t t of tly ted all at once upon o peck at o eat . Outcasts, urned against tcast? OUT OF THE ROSE One er evening an old kniged ccired, as after a long journey, and t of no neig a small rose made of rubies t glimmered every moment to a deeper crimson. e s disorder added to t seldom into ts trouble, t do dream hey do. After gazing a tretc boto, ellectual Flame, let tes of to me at last! And suddenly a loud squealing began in tain side. opped o listen, and and of voices. ting to make to t a dozen peasants armed spears , and stood a little apart from roop of o an old man to go after t imes more to find taken; and ly tell our story to De Courcey, and if o Fitzgerald; for De Courcey and Fitzgerald ely made a peace, and knoo whom we belong. But by t time, said t, ten. A dozen men cannot do more, and it reasonable t turn out and risk two dozen pigs. Can you tell me, said t, if to wrue of ? rue as anoto a saint every morning before . t o fig, and if you ake t of ttle, and you kno a man in armour is her. And turned to ake t to get back to their cabins. Are treacherous and impious? treac, and no man o pray. t, I ing; and on togeter a time to rack o taking to ascend tains. In a little o dismount and leave ied to a tree?stem. t track: for ted s clay and mingled prints of tly till more abrupt, and t?prints t t a pig tle ty minutes, tood t turn. tiously, and in about five minutes one of t sigruck ts c glanced off of arro by t bees. toanding up among till quivering bo at once come o and smote do one and ts sed, and, pressing on, drove til t on t top of tain, and tly grubbing in t grass, so t to move back again to coming no of all, and striking doer ts no very serious s among t of ttle upon s in o trance of to tood to guard t en off, made t of sig hurry. An return; and no could stand on guard no longer, but o lie do by, and t appeared to be a number of cocks featuck round , came out of to move about among tting t, and said: O great knighe heads: five crowns a head. tell you t to God and o give you a long life, but t ts, and t told me t forget it, and promised to beat me if I did. t raised o , counted out ty heads in all. O great knigake all care of you, and lig tment upon your oget and steel under a mass of dry leaves, of mail, o anoint t clumsily, like one motioned o stop, and said: You seem a good lad. I hing of you for myself. till a fe; so you? O no, said to me. t I care about doing, and I o do it. I go from village to village and from o eal ake o t until I get anot to fig, and do not do me any o do any go a message no is because I am an innocent t to get teal t come back t you are not ened, t arms are not cened at all? If you take t old coat of mail which I shall soon need no more. ted: yes, I remember no you to tell me s in tories and for so little a t rat a ly and crumble you into dust? I ell you of myself, replied t, for no I am t of tell all and ness for God. Look at t, and see the symbol of my life and of my hope. And told tory, but pauses; and, , t, and tuck t of as tors in the play. I live in a land far from ts of St. Jo I last to us a knigine, to rut Rose of Fire, and a Voice out of told urn from t of ts, and boer order and outer fixity, and t t t, and te hink. Already, told of t o keep it alive, re, and t, as it paled, a strange infection oucars and trees ion, and t none of trut er into t of tayed on ed prove t tion by dying in t of Palestine elling us to see in a vision a crimson Rose spreading itself about o speak out of its , and t it o us by t, and us in all teaco obey t knoing, and us out in troops into to seek good causes, and die in doing battle for t first to die more readily by fasting to deat; but told us for took out of time and manner of our deat cs excellence, and for t to God to re ime and in er to eat al a table to c ed unduly, for some among us said t if one fasted for a love of ts and table. And t of Palestine, and at last I te, and a terrible fear lest I , last ern isle , and, be joy. t o sing in Latin, and, er. t, and told me a good tale, ing in it, but I did not understand muc, and it is o remember so long a story. And, taking ts s clay. ligouc done bird; and o the valley. THE WISDOM OF THE KING t to nurse of mud and t rocking ty of t t grant o y. t t up, not a little neig e. error s, and a grey?clad age, and of a more tood by t to take t tead of t, and too ignorant and too full of gaiety to knoood tc in t s for trembling, and anot less old tead of ood by t. In a little, came a ter il t ood a long time in perfect silence and stillness, for troubled, but at last one muttered in a loers, I knetered like a bird under a net of silver cords ; and took up ters, I kne is er t toget rocking tender and caressing, no of sig of mind: Long of mood, taken aaken aar stone; s urn to grey, Are true till time gutter away. , t spoken, said: e o do but to mix a drop of our blood into c of a spindle, , fall upon t into t in silence one by one; and all t opened o dance, for too ignorant and too full of gaiety to kno beings over the cradle. o o t in t of t t, over t nigs and men of lao t and gat t up and looked at them. ting against ts and t looked to see er ales of ions about t for a miracle t began to trouble all men; and all ceasing. to gro tinually, in but a little ter of great moment, for miracles tle t for an ancient la none at tened to ts in t of t possible to ts feated; nor could te from tion of t gre o c tacle of t o reign in ead. s and toget, and all tters old too tted by t ruto o try round about. After mucion to mingle artificially to men s and slings and boo tries round about to gat any ruto to the sea. to boyo man all trange and subtle ts ions bet. Multitudes came from oto see o ask t at tiers, o ened to o make all darkness ligs like music; but, alas, o t too strange and subtle to o live out ty days. A number indeed did live differently after t t urned to to find er in ttle, for augtle a rue; ot oil, for er purposes; and numbers of tain became like a fire in ts, and made all kindly joys and traffic bet different all into vague regret. es about territory, or about traying of cattle, or about ty of blood; urn to t to be from courtesy, for none kne tters filled er?marc amid ts and dreams, s its oude. Among to look at o listen to er of a little king range and pale beauty unlike t Dana, t mot t as t of otery of troubled o old y, and praised o give le in his dreams. Over o marry some by tsmen of distant lands; cloto iful t clotry; and still s , and told urn to t titude of t even tten, eit time to till sill believe t a beauty so muc. tall young man in tling and in training of , ers of t said, I e to your beautiful ts; and t beautiful like yours; and no I of your my , t casts no serror and darkness upon my . t ten understanding tful inual solitude; and o trembling voice. t and prayed for pardon, and ooped do of turned ao a o ts and ood upon t t t s lig and t is deadly to mortal to your kind, and call Eocy Mind to reign over you, for I set out to find my kindred. of t one and ttered t, and none dared to follow he birds of prey; and no man saw him again or heard his voice. Some believed t ernal abode among t all nig t cellations rising and setting in te mirrors. THE HEART OF THE SPRING A very old man, meditating upon t and part of t? faced boy of seventeen years sat by cill er. t, and t and a blue cap, and tle monastery. It y, but t find ser in days. set o t it, and t until t and mingled a c, even tood upon oes; and beyond trees. Master, said ting, and ter nigo ters and among trees, is too mucrengt from all ttle, for your less steady under you to?day t you are older t you seek t t belongs to age. s of t; and tely, as t ant days and distant deeds. I ell you o rest, is rig you sion, taking atle of too, t triump is to his knowledge. Master, do not t I ion you. It is for me to keep t, and tc trong, lest t among trees; and it is for me to take to lift from its corner t painted roll o possess t , for rig God of e o do things is my wisdom. You are afraid, said tary anger. Sometimes at nig of t grey man driving stle people in red caps tle fear ttle people so muco dance; and I kno t loves dancing; but I fear t. And I fear tall tell eacion of ts, no and noo tiful faces, but, Aengus, son of Forbis, I fear all t w us. gods out in battle, and ttle people ill c I must tell you your ed and laboured to no good end. ttage and till your fields, and take some girl to t gods. I o me by earls and knigments of cs and squires ladies for keeping ttle fall dry, and taking tter from t all for t an end, and no t lack for gold and silver pieces enougo make strong tree of your cottage and to keep cellar and larder full. I to find t of life. I it age o t Secret. I longed for a life ers. I Gods of t I found in a Spanisery, t t after tered trembles al Po ens to tal Poo Ireland and asked tors, if t t, t upon to magic, and spent my life in fasting and in labour t I migo my side; and no last one of told me t t is at e into my ear. tomorrotle before t er dao a soute marble amid orange trees, and gatiful about me, and enter into ternal kingdom of my yout, t I may old by ttle fello you must bring great masses of green boug t put fresable and t do to?nig t er da come and find me. ill you be quite young the boy. I noill old and tired, and you must o my co my books. Aengus son of Forbis in ed trivance of t odour as of strange floo tting green boug bundles of rusern border of to gently sloping sand and clay. It o its place, and gone back for t iful nigones. Sleuto t out of green beryl, and ters t mirrored tre of pearl. Everytaken upon itself t a glo on steadily among t seemed alive, t seemed perisal armful of roses and lilies, and ting to t in a er armful upon table, and tly closing to dream of a peaceful man er of c dao taking t some bread and a flask of , t er mig lack food at tset of doo until the hour from dawn had gone by. Gradually to sing, and o overflo beautiful and living moment of ten to t beating in it. up and to find er. to make a ered t able, and everyt green s t clasping a mass of roses and lilies in . On table, at full of gold and silver pieces, as for a journey, and at aff. touc move. ed t te cold, and they fell heavily. It ter for o old to tal Poter to t, and it a ted among t to sing. THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS One summer nigan troopers under ton, broke te Friars Sligo. As ttle knot of friars, gat tar, te s glimmering in teady lig t, ar steps brazen crucifix in ton, but none stirred, for all s, and feared te ligar troopers up on to roof and roopers moved about, tastic dance among tablets. For a little roopers ed ts, and s doery of tar ligroopers took courage and began to strike. In a moment t tar steps, te s stained fire to ton, and at out, and came in again carrying a ra against tern roopers ed foraking eac traongues of fire ruso corbel and from tablet to tablet, and crept along tting in a blaze ts and bencroopers fell back tocher. For a time tar stood safe and apart in t of its urned upon it. t ood before it ed in boto all of teps of tar. t it drove troopers out into the open air. Before ted s and martyrs, arance, into an angry and animated life. troopers s and martyrs. Presently, ed Iriso raise against you try about Manor on, and if you do not stop t between Ben Bulben and Cashel?na?Gael. Sir Frederick on called to roopers quickly, and ride toain, and get before them. In a moment troopers s t o ten track t rees mingled above, and , leaving t complete darkness. t a rapid trot, noing togetcray scuttling aogeto talk rapidly; told o see urn safe from tion against te Friars, and to une of ted , curn, and tle talking at all. Suddenly topped, and t rembling. I sa I do not kno it may looked like a great o to cross remembering t it doain it a s many about us, and of very strange kinds. t of tting ttle to talk again. ttles against many a rebel togetold eacory of ts trongest of all felloerrible solitude of the woods. Suddenly t till, and of er, and t it ed, and after mucugging and coaxing brougo t of ter stood a tall old ood up to er, and stooped from time to time as tly t s ed. t a flickering lig, and t it it, an eddy of turned toroopers recognised at t ood dumb and motionless o speak, saying slowly and loudly: Did you see my son? he crown. t of troopers, often rut fear tan, and ruso ter. In a moment urned. t o air and er hing. troopers remounted, and set t t all to no purpose. tried again and again, and plunging us, said trooper, ride back a little into trike triking against teel caps. After about ty minutes riding t again upon ter anoten minutes found a place o cross sinking beloirrups. t into long streams. to drive t treams of ligo be dancing a grotesque dance among ttered busrees. tops of trees began also to moan, and t roopers remembered t tells ory are spitted upon ts of trees and upon ts of turned a little to t t strike ten pat trace of it. Meano be aant music. It o joy. It came from ttom of a deep, cup?like of t beside a fire of sticks, and orc into t , and played an old bagpipe furiously. upon a rock. Did you see my wife? ; she was washing! she was washing! I am afraid of rooper, I fear rooper, o be our guide; and at t ood in a ring round ted t rooper told t kill t mountain spur t is called Cas get up before one of t turned, and pointed to a neigree, and te ted, bridled, and saddled. aking torc upon tarted off before them, as hard as he could go. to slope up toain. t, and ttle ars every last top of tain. t mile after mile beloo t up to before and above ttle ing up did not orc, Look; look at t a gallop, orc of your of troopers t ttle of noo slope more and more, and t by moment. tried to pull up, but in vain, for to o te an immense distance belo t is no up into t later five men and t of the rocks. THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT At to t, at t? to sea ttage stood in t century. It also cain old Micill ter nigall sc over t travel to Dorrens Island, and from to t for ttle communion for anyt for t t of t double over tone beads brougo of France. One nigcer le and favourable o lie do tening t, and t t dare to round Rougo an ancer daybreak; is called tly because tartled of y, ook doring, and folloohe pools. o ermost pool, t tall rusill ers, ts lying among t of an enormous pearl. In a little number, standing ed legs in ter; and crouco t for a moment over o murmur: Patron Patrick, let me s a o a pie it me for nearly four days, for I no longer eat as in my youto you every nigil ten. ting one, turned totle stream t floo to take tism by ood in ter. But ely great age and infirmity stood in its place. ood t ionless feat from t enemy of all encment brougo vanisime. imes, and said a Paternoster and an Ave Maria, and muttered ron is standing upon ter, and to round a bend of to ttle stream looked do pattern and spotted t of so great a retco ed fingers almost toucarted back, crying: izard, I no ouc danger just escaped made remble. If you listen to me, replied a voice so faint t it a me kiss the cross before I die. I en to you, I let you toucting on ttle across o listen. I kno ions ago to battle, nor listened to t came to us at all, a passing fire. ts told us, many and many a time, of a nerick; and most among t rine merely trine of t out in ne of tale. At last t o to te, but en to neity, for e about ts of t and of ttle Metre; nor urbed under travelling to to contend against urned after nigorn robes and despairing cries; for ting our ts in Oge filled us o range Druid preacs of o yaretc trick ed and read, and lauger togettle oly tall figures stood in te, t lily and a rick and our King Leag le, it t spoke to us, but a strange voice in lement of Druid flame: quot;I preacs of t; it said; quot;re of to t silence, so t ted e air, and ter, illed trembling tongues in te marble, and tionless mirrors, and till enduring eternity in patience, alt your slender knives click, click! upon taves, and, all else being silent, ttle roots, nipped by ter, . O, men d of angels cannot touc s you as t, I lay upon you a curse, and co an example for ever and ever; you sand pondering in grey pools and flit over t is most full of sigten tars and not yet found to til to you by c no fire of certainty may visit your s.quot; till, but teen bent over rying in vain to understand sometale; and , it may be for a long time, a tug at art out of rying to drao reac. You must not touceen, and struck t rembled, for till. doo consider to pass aand t ed and pleaded for, and no t, if t big cloak, and t little tigting cloak under it, Patrick ake tment out of t for touc gear into a little , and ttle il t th green grass. WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD ttle ullagomed to pray, or bend over many s, er togettle er, Brotrick, Brottern, Brotoo young to battle, sat about to lay in ting in a large book, and one so t lay t ender years t fire o leap and flicker. One of t or nine years, called Olioll, lay upon , and cars appearing and disappearing in t of turned presently to te in ty o teaco ars fastened? to see so mucy in tupidest of alline sp tened, on t Mercury, on t Venus, on t Mars, on t Jupiter, on t Saturn; tars; and on tened tars; but tance on whe beginning. is beyond t? said t; there is God. And trayed to t ruby of ter put a great ruby on the box? the love of God. he love of God? Because it is red, like fire, and fire burns up everythere is God. to silence, but presently sat up and said, tside. No, replied t is only t in time. t ter drives tains. to a fold last nig careful thing. No, it is tstep of a man, for it is I can steps of the wolves also. imes, but loudness. I will go and open, for be very cold. Do not open, for it may be a man?wolf, and he may devour us all. But t, and all t of ttle pale, turned tohe slowly?opening door. be a man?ted fell over o , and dropping from tattered cloak t but o face atic eyes. Standing some ed at last upon t Malat, O blessed abbot, let me come to t I may not die of tains, and anger tyrdom. Come to t, and t is sad indeed t any for w has died should be as poor as you. t over took a aer. o dry a little and o she cold, he spoke again. O blessed abbot, y on ty on a beggar o do, t t of Gods poor. toget o, and at first to little purpose, for t found its labourer in t busy community; but at last one remembered t Brot o turn t quern in too stupid for anytting old for so to the morrow. to summer, and t turned gloom, too, y, for Olioll, eac en and told to knoer on t into a lotle boys ears, and upidity, born of a mind t en to every day of sc first Brot to o took it for a great proof of t , o t trafficking co follocold to t, rut day, and te s upon took t by t and said, test of saints and of t noupidity tle marks in t imes. I self at a sloping place, and understood by tears in upidity oo old and oo neo save error of t to t timid in t side s, turned to told o learn, and began to cry, and t beside ed il t do;O t beyond tars, s t kno from t t;; and t broke out of t tirred a little in my urned and sa;O Brot y moved mequot;; but I stop running until I came alking toget it anot it ill in t t it o quarreling as mig gentle community, for eac a saint for ive province. At last t said, you Easter I ing from all, and eac of to live in ts. ten years ago trick and into t t labour only o t t many to a little pride clung to a soul from rue t ains and eating t us go to last, after long seeking, is God; and bid rodden. te s along ten pates s, udded ones, in t of t doo pray, aing t to the unknown darkness, as his way was. OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DER OF COStELLO tER OF DERMOtt, AND OF ttER tONGUE Costello oing t, and considering toms of Elizabet of faso prevail among try, ill cloak of tive Irisive outlines of ness of body rengto a simpler age. to itself over tern o a oiled sloes and ttle and sed bagpipes o be seen distinctly in t, sleeping you are, tumaus Costello, s on t we roads? Get up out of t, proud tumaus, for I up out of t, you great omad of t weed of a man! Costello o , and as to , and lifting of o the ground. Let me alone, let me alone, said t Costello still shook him. I ts daug fingers he piper rose gasping. tell me, said Costello, t you came from have railed your fill. I I speak unless I am paid for my shaking. Costello fumbled at t ime before it ream of Frenco t the coins before he would answer. t is rig is a fair price, but I speak till I ection, for if tts lay ter sundo to rot among ttles of a ditc sycamore, aine four years. And o a bar of rusty iron t ared into the wall. I , said Costello, and no man dare lay , or t is tumaus Costellos. And I ell my message, said ttle Pot beside me, for ty, my forbears il t and ttle uries ago by t see on ttle eyes gleamed and thin hands clenched. Costello led o t rusrery, but a feudal gauntness and bareness, and pointed to t c do on t a great black jack of leat a torc slanted out from a ring in trembling turned tos daugo me, Duallach, son of Daly? Dermotts daug come to you, for o c sell you t t . Jo of roto Namara of t, o you, tumaus Costello, and let all knole of gladness is in you, for I sa;Blue Pigeonquot; in ty noggin toello, like ter in to so a perieen. Finding t Costello made no reply, but sat in a dream, out: Fill my noggin, I tell you, for no Costello is so great in t upon a Daly, even travel tello y s, and a ello as me a kind word from my love. For t feo raise a bodyguard, and every man ory of Costello, ler raining at t t about t lers back; older o maneel Drum?an?air because of a malevolent song t y; and of many anotrengt rust te and poor in a quarrel t of the Lake. tello out er listening to many excuses and in many places, brougted fello farmer out cudgels, and Costello gave tol apiece, and kept t drinking Spanising at a urnip on tream, and t ters, no ting, and no Costello because ter servants. tted felloomed to Duallac t tello, h a scolding piper. On t evening t out for Cool?a?vin, Costello riding a tolerable out cudgels under to o on turf, celebrating to Dermotts a fire, in t of to be but fairies, dance no ot places. From t of candles and t dancing a dance of Elizabeth and James. tied to busied already s tables t into t ted fellos Costello made o ood een out of a porcelain jug into h silver rims. tumaus Costello, said to forget y and come to troter to Namara of the Lake. I come, ansello, because ello De Angalo my forbears overcame your forbears and after a Costello migs and o every feast given by a Dermott for ever, and a Dermott s and o every feast given by a Costello for ever. If you come s and armed men, said tt fluster rong your o le and to s s of Mayo, and my ts ains; and he handle of a weapon. No, ansello, I but come to dance a fareer. Dermott dre over to a tall pale girl a little he ground. Costello o dance a fareher again. ted Costello, and in trust of tle in t, ello led o t stately dance t Irisry, teromimic dances of earlier days; and ter pity for one anot common ation of love. And ood a little from ting pensively and silently for to begin again and ts to leap up and to long, and many stood still to cs came about tood t t tell ello dance ts daugelling tion of ancient romance; but t alking loudly and making foolis all migt of tener and oftener at to see if the dawn. At last t to end er a dance, cried out from er roto ood round in a ello close to to t, and tted man and t of a nicoasts of troteen out of a porcelain jug and o er omary o . So , and t voice: I drink to my true love, tumaus Costello. And truck here was a deep silence. ts no of tory?teller and poet, a last remnant of tter in Namaras kitc of rike at Costello, but in a moment a bloeel ttering and sing from ts about t tts, but of t Loug t arms of tened t t give touter blo. Atty and sun and moon, and rengt. Atty or sun and moon. Costellos ed upon te, but norode to angrily and slo ttering and sing peasants, but some gladly and quickly, because t faces, and came o bused and bade also and ride into ttle urned totle group of Dermotts and Namaras stood next to a more numerous group of countrymen, and cried: Dermott, you deserve to be as you are tern a candle, a purse a penny, a s ory?teller and to poor travelling people. done before tts from tains ot to to follorymen caugill gloicks from tes of the dawn. For t feello o tell er St. Jotle better or a little migo s as usual, t upon turning from fairs and s Days, ttles and c e purposes of t roubled rouble; and try people still remember ell, to ts, ty of traditional tales asmal o the dreams of his sorrow. Duallacen pause to tell , or arrior of ttle, or to tell rangers and most of t Costello cared only for tter o try of t, Oona alone endured t oer o deliver from itudes clinging o t le tment t into ongue; and it le carved box, from sundoo sunrise, and a a kings spent years in o discover y in t ragedy in t last tle , and ic steps oiled upstairs and to bed, and Costello o ttle delf font of er and begun to pray to Mary of tar?covered dress of ting in tion, and tts daugead; for tenderness in ts pure for love or for red as ots, and ion arrives, come to tter tumult, te Rood ordained for immortal passions in mortal s. One day a serving?man rode up to Costello, o reap a meadoer, and rode a a ter contained tumaus Costello, my daugo o ole by treact, tt. Costello t one of to horse and Duallachs garron. o Dermotts e afternoon, and Louged; and t a distance, dark figures moving about t less deserted tood ello knocked upon it again and again, so t a number of lake gulls fle of t there was no answer. tt of too proud to ello the Proud, and y, very old tello kne it Delaney, a deaf and dumb beggar; and sood up and made a sign to o folloo a closed door. S a little do close to tello and gazed upon inny sleeping upon a bed. upon a ced, and a long time passed and still s on, and tioned to o ungovernable pity . Presently urned to Duallac is not rig I stay o blame tiful. And t doood at ted, but the evening wore on and no one came. It ello, Duallac last; ing and ing a beggar to is ello he would have called you. tello mounted and Duallaced, but ello tigand still. Many minutes passed, and t is no you fear to offend Dermott of trong man and ready he Gael are upon his side. And Costello ans I urn t send after me before I pass t so very slo t dos began to fly over to t presently rode out into topped ed on a furter a good ime very bitterly: It o door, boo gentles and to serving?men. it ello rode tood beside tered on to ts, and umaus Costello, I come to bid you again to Dermotts er inny arouble upon ook Dermott of t and brougo er. rouble upon o bring you the quicker. tello turned toaking t lifted of t a grey rock t rose up out of t o ters s over tongue t be a story in mens ears in after time. to to, along t pause until o anoter. irresolute, and to tains, and doo continually resting upon t ice of some boundless and pasmal no spurring it to an extreme speed, fell o t tried to make it stand up, and failing in t on alone to; and came to t anc ired and t very cold, and into a so t smuggled a cargo of ing a favourable o set out again. A Spaniard offered greedily and began talking wildly and rapidly. For some too great violence, and tayed drinking and talking and playing cards, and Costello stayed alking and playing more t tle money from tain boreen, to a Spaniard, o a farmer from tains, and ts of soft leat last a gentle o to ted ttle urned o t from near Lougo took a great cros and farmers, s and a group of ain of ts daugts and tumaus Costello who murdered her. Costello on to anding anding t belongs to good seemed impossible t a gentleness and a beauty ly opped and asked again ts daugo be buried in trinity, and tooped and picked up a stone and cast it at Costello, striking over ello on scarcely feeling to t to t of this coffin? tts from tains caugones and bid t t for ts would surely have been killed. ello began to folloance t, and t it get into ots, and ts move sloer to Insula trinitatis; and after a time s return and t seemed to inny y, and t, calling to Oona to come to rembled, and all about e mote flo odours drifted the dim air. niger, from time to time calling o come to en, only kneo him. Just before das ly voice crying out, er of Dermott of t come to me I urn to trinity, and before over t, ing drapery; and t no longer smiling gently, for sly and angrily, and as sruck urn. o toget silvery rose, faded into the ashen dawn. Costello got up from tanding not t so go, and into to so keep , and tle ruggle, like a man passing into sleep and dreams. t day a poor fise lake sand as to ed over ime rinitatis ar bets dauged above t in after days ogetrembling leaves.