“DUST HATH CLOSED HELEN’S EYE”
I ely to a little group of many enougo be called a village, in tartan in County Galway, w of Ireland.
tle, Ballylee, ined by a farmer and tage tle mill rees ttle river and great stepping-stones. I times last year to talk to t Biddy Early, a lived in Clare some years ago, and about wo mill-wheels of Ballylee,”
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I first tery and Mary ill I die,” and t to go round and to mark some o go to, and to reated if you did not, you in Irisest poet in Ireland, and t buso stand under it. tood under from t, and ter came t.” So a friend and to myself in Irisoo proud to be t of ural as t Irisry of t century, for ts are arranged in a too obviously traditional form, so t o speak as if of everyto t it ender p ranslation, but some of it ry people t y of t translations.
Going to Mass by the will of God,
t and the wind rose;
I met Mary tartan,
And I fell in love here.
I spoke to her kind and mannerly,
As by report was he