AMagazine of Verse

VOLUME III
October-March. 1913-4

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A Dagazine of Verse

OCTOBER, 1913

Vol. III
No. I

THE TWO KINGS

E RIDE but slowly though so

home."

near our

King Eochaid* said, and he that bore his shield

Sighing replied: "What need have we for haste

Towards the hour for speaking of the dead?

My married sister put into my care

But Eochaid,

A boy of twenty years; a mound and stone
Between the wood of Duras and Magai
Have been the measure of that care."
Having no thought but for his queen Edain,
Outrode his troop that after twelve months' war
Toiled with empounded cattle through the mire,
And came into a wood as the sun set

Westward of Tara. Where in the middle wood
A clump of beech trees made an empty space

He thought to have given his horse the spur, but saw,

*Eochaid is pronounced Yohee.