POETS AND DREAMERS:
STUDIES & TRANSLATIONS FROM
THE IRISH, BY LADY GREGORY.
DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO., LTD.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
1903.
TO SOME UNDERGRADUATES OF TRINITY COLLEGE
'Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best;
In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest;
Happiness, knowledge not in another place, but this place—not for another hour but this hour.'
WALT WHITMAN.
CONTENTS
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RAFTERY1
WEST IRISH BALLADS47
JACOBITE BALLADS66
AN CRAOIBHIN'S POEMS76
BOER BALLADS IN IRELAND89
A SORROWFUL LAMENT FOR IRELAND98
MOUNTAIN THEOLOGY104
HERB-HEALING111
THE WANDERING TRIBE121
WORKHOUSE DREAMS128
ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD193
AN CRAOIBHIN'S PLAYS:—196
THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE200
THE MARRIAGE216
THE LOST SAINT236
THE NATIVITY244
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POETS AND DREAMERS
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I.
One winter afternoon as I sat by the fire in a ward of Gort Workhouse, Ilistened to two old women arguing about the merits of two rival poetsthey had seen and heard in their childhood.
One old wo                        
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