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Excerpt from Ballads of Irish Chivalry
And the clank of sabres followed him on his pathway through the glade.
For his comrades at their leader's call beside the streamlet's bank Were filing from their ferny beds in many a serried rank And now along their ordered lines Fertullagh's accents came The foeman through our native fields speeds down with sword and ?ame We'll meet him as we ever did; and though we are but few, We'll meet him in the eastward pass, and give him welcome due 1 They gained that pass when morning leapt above the eastern wave, And half his men to Owney Oge the hardy Chieftain gave Now lie ye here in ambush close while we retreat below, And when the last of the band have passed we'll spring upon the foe l.
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