Where are they, the beloved, with Emily Brontë, Hartley Coleridge, They would not yield their souls the thrall O sayest thou the soul shall climb He has been, for a half-century, wan- Who shall restore Restore The bright young songful days? God only can restore us But God He will restore us The lost ones all! What tho' the future's shadows fall our tears, Our God will give them back to us once more. He can restore The vanished golden years: The vanished golden years! Remember Him whom heaven and earth adore: Fast and deny thyself: give alms, and pray. Thy bark drifts hourly toward the phantom shore: The sails are up, the vessel cannot stay. As yet the accusing scroll is incomplete, But Scales and Bridge maintain their dread array. Who knows in what abodes of want those youths were driven to house? Yet you can give yourself these airs, O woman of three cows! O think of Donnell of the Ships, the chief whom nothing daunted! See how he fell in distant Spain, unchronicled, unchanted. He sleeps, the great O'Sullivan, whom thunder cannot rouse: Now thou art here, now at the judgment Then ask yourself, should you be proud, seat, For death and justice brook no long delay. Ah, (rust Hudayi!) he alone from birth (Ya Hu!) Is guided by the Guardian Four alway. (Ya Hu!) He is alone the friend of God on earth, (Ya Hu!) Who visits earth, and doth not sigh to stay. (Ya Hu!) THE WOMAN OF THREE COWS. O woman of three cows, agragh! don't let your tongue thus rattle: O don't be saucy, don't be stiff, because you may have cattle. I've seen (and here's my hand to you, I only say what's true!) A many a one with twice your stock not half so proud as you. Good luck to you, don't scorn the poor, and don't be their despiser, For worldly wealth soon melts away, and cheats the very miser. And death soon strips the proudest wreath from haughty human brows: Then don't be stiff, and don't be proud, good woman of three cows! See where Momonia's heroes lie, proud Owen More's descendants! 'Tis they that won the glorious name and had the grand attendants: If they were forced to bow to fate, as every mortal bows, Can you be proud, can you be stiff, my woman of three cows? good woman of three cows! O'Ruark, Maguire, those souls of fire whose names are shrined in story, Think how their high achievements once made Erin's greatest glory: Yet now their bones lie mouldering under weeds and cypress boughs, And so, for all your pride, will yours, O woman of three cows! The O'Carrolls, also, famed when fame was only for the boldest, Rest in forgotten sepulchres with Erin's best and oldest: Yet who so great as they of yore in battle and carouse? Just think of that, and hide your head, good woman of three cows. Your neighbor's poor, and you, it seems, are big with vain ideas, Because, inagh, you've got three cows: one more, I see, than she has! That tongue of yours wags more, at times, than charity allows: But if you're strong, be merciful, great woman of three cows! Avran. 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