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A CELTIC PSALTERY BEING MAINLY RENDERINGS IN ENGLISH VERSE FROM IRISH & WELSH POETRY

ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES

1917 DEDICATION

TO THE RIGHT HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

PREFACE CONTENTS

I. IRISH POEMS II. WELSH POEMS III. OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IV. CHURCH FESTIVALS V. GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS VI. PERSONAL AND VARIOUS

I. Irish Poems THE ISLE OF THE HAPPY THE WISDOM OF KING CORMAC

THE DEPTHS OF KING CORMAC'S HEART

THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY HOW KING CORMAC ORDERED HIS YOUTH THE WORST WAY OF PLEADING

IRISH TRIADS Lays of the Irish Saints ST. PATRICK'S BLESSING ON MUNSTER THE BREASTPLATE OF ST. PATRICK ST. PATRICK'S EVENSONG ST. COLUMBA'S GREETING TO IRELAND ST. COLUMBA IN IONA HAIL, BRIGIT! THE DEVIL'S TRIBUTE TO MOLING THE HYMN OF ST. PHILIP Lays of Monk and Hermit THE SCRIBE THE HERMIT'S SONG CRINOG KING AND HERMIT ON ÆNGUS THE CULDEE THE SHAVING OF MURDOCH ON THE FLIGHTINESS OF THOUGHT THE MONK AND HIS WHITE CAT Invocations and Reflections A PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN MAELISU'S HYMN TO THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL MAELISU'S HYMN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT EVE'S LAMENTATION ALEXANDER THE GREAT THE KINGS WHO CAME TO CHRIST Quatrains HOSPITALITY THE BLACKBIRD MOLING SANG THIS THE CHURCH BELL IN THE NIGHT THE CRUCIFIXION THE PILGRIM AT ROME ON A DEAD SCHOLAR Charms and Invocations CHARMS AGAINST SORROW ON COVERING THE FIRE FOR THE NIGHT MORNING WISH A CHARM AGAINST ENEMIES CHARM FOR A PAIN IN THE HEART THE SAFE-GUARDING OF MY SOUL THE WHITE PATERNOSTER. Lamentations THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE THE DESERTED HOME THE MOTHERS' LAMENT AT THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS THE KEENING OF MARY CAOINE Songs to Music BATTLE HYMN THE SONG OF THE WOODS THE ENCHANTED VALLEY REMEMBER THE POOR II. Welsh Poems THE ODES TO THE MONTHS THE TERCETS HAIL, GLORIOUS LORD! MY BURIAL THE LAST CYWYDD THE LABOURER THE ELEGY ON SION GLYN, A CHILD OF FIVE YEARS OF AGE THE NOBLE'S GRAVE THE BARD'S DEATH-BED CONFESSION QUICK, DEATH! COUNSEL IN VIEW OF DEATH FROM "THE LAST JUDGMENT" A GOOD WIFE "MARCHOG JESU!" THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM

RACHEL MOURNING THE BURNING TEMPLE

LOVE DIVINE BEHIND THE VEIL THE REIGN OF LOVE PLAS GOGERDDAN ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT DAVID OF THE WHITE ROCK THE HIGH TIDE "ORA PRO NOBIS" A FLOWER-SUNDAY LULLABY THE BALLAD OF THE OLD BACHELOR OF TY'N Y MYNYDD THE QUEEN'S DREAM THE WELSH FISHERMEN III. Old and New Testament Studies DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN THE FIERY FURNACE RUTH AND NAOMI THE LILIES OF THE FIELD AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR THE GOOD PHYSICIAN THE SOWER THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN ST. MARY MAGDALEN IV. Church Festivals A CHRISTMAS COMMUNION HYMN A CHRISTMAS CAROL OF THE EPIPHANY A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY CAROL EARTH'S EASTER EASTER DAY, 1915

I II

THE ASCENSION WHITSUNTIDE HARVEST HYMN

CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS

V. Good and Faithful Servants FATHER O'FLYNN LADY GWENNY OLD DOCTOR MACK TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN OWEN

HARLECH CHOIRMASTER

SAINT CUTHBERT ALFRED THE GREAT

A MILLENARY MEMORIAL

SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON "MEN, NOT WALLS, MAKE A CITY" FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER INSCRIPTION FOR A ROLL OF HONOUR IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL AN EPITAPH AN INTERCESSIONAL ANSWERED VI. Personal and Various LET THERE BE JOY! A HOLIDAY HYMN SUMMER MORNING'S WALK SNOW-STAINS REMEMBRANCE SANDS OF GOLD THE MOURNER DE PROFUNDIS IMMORTAL HOPE WE HAD A CHILD HE HAS COME BACK SPRING'S SECRETS THE LORD'S LEISURE SPRING IS NOT DEAD AIM NOT TOO HIGH WILD WINE OF NATURE

IN PRAISE OF WATER-DRINKING

BRIDAL INVOCATION THE COMING OF SIR GALAHAD AND A VISION OF THE GRAIL ASK WHAT THOU WILT

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