, in others in that of
verse-lines.

I must not conclude without recording here also, as I have done elsewhere,
my gratitude for the constant help and advice given to me in these
translations by my old friend and colleague, Professor J.M. Mackay.

K.M.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: The poems referred to have been preserved in Continental
manuscripts.]

[Footnote 2: See the admirable paper by Professor Lewis Jones on 'The Celt
and the Poetry of Nature,' in the _Transactions of the Hon. Society of
Cymmrodorion_, Session 1892-93, p. 46 ff.]

CONTENTS

MYTH AND SAGA--
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THE ISLES OF THE HAPPY 3

THE SEA-GOD'S ADDRESS TO BRAN 7

THE TRYST AFTER DEATH 9

DEIRDRE'S FAREWELL TO SCOTLAND 15

DEIRDRE'S LAMENT 17

THE HOSTS OF FAERY 19

FROM THE VISION OF MAC CONGLINNE 20

RELIGIOUS POETRY--

THE DEER'S CRY 25

AN EVEN-SONG 28

PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER 29

THE HERMIT'S SONG 30

A PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN 32

EVE'S LAMENT 34

ON THE FLIGHTINESS OF THOUGHT 35

TO CRINOG 37

THE DEVIL'S TRIBUTE TO MOLING 39

MAELISU'S HYMN TO THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL 41

THE MOTHERS' LAMENT AT THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS 42

SONGS OF NATURE--

KING AND HERMIT 47

SONG OF THE SEA 51

SUMMER HAS COME 53

SONG OF SUMMER 54

SUMMER IS GONE 56

A SONG OF WINTER 57

ARRAN 59

LOVE POETRY--

THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE 63

LIADIN AND CURITHIR