A Complete Account Of The Various Colonizations Of Ireland As Delivered By The Sage Fintan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE AFAF DGDG HIII JEJE EKEK AKAK IEKE DIDI AIAI| Should any enquire about Eirinn | A |
| It is I who can tell him the truth | B |
| Concerning the deeds of each daring | C |
| Invader since Time was a youth | B |
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| First Cassir Bith's venturesome daughter | D |
| Came here o'er the Eastern Sea | E |
| And fifty fair damsels she brought her | D |
| To solace her warriors three | E |
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| Bith died at the foot of his mountain | A |
| And Ladra on top of his height | F |
| And Cassir by Boyle's limpid fountain | A |
| Ere rushed down the Flood in its might | F |
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| For a year while the waters encumber | D |
| The Earth at Tul Tunna of strength | G |
| I slept none enjoyed such sweet slumber | D |
| As that which I woke from at length | G |
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| When Partholan came to the island | H |
| From Greece in the Eastern land | I |
| I welcomed him gaily to my land | I |
| And feasted the whole of his band | I |
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| Again when Death seized on the strangers | J |
| I roamed the land merry and free | E |
| Both careless and fearless of dangers | J |
| Till blithe Nemid came o'er the sea | E |
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| The Firbolgs and roving Fir Gallians | E |
| Came next like the waves in their flow | K |
| The Fir Dennans arrived in battalions | E |
| And landed in Erris Mayo | K |
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| Then came the wise Tuatha de Danann | A |
| Concealed in black clouds from their foe | K |
| I feasted with them near the Shannon | A |
| Though that was a long time ago | K |
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| After them came the Children of Mil eacute | I |
| From Spain o'er the Southern waves | E |
| I lived with the tribes as their Filea | K |
| And chanted the deeds of their braves | E |
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| Time ne'er my existence could wither | D |
| From Death's grasp I always was freed | I |
| Till Patrick the Christian came hither | D |
| To spread the Redeemer's pure creed | I |
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| My name it is Fintan the Fair man | A |
| Of Bochra the son you must know it | I |
| I lived through the Flood in my lair man | A |
| I am now an illustrious poet | I |
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