[{"node":{"title":"Ferg004","Collections":"Conary","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Saturday, March 12, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg004","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Highway, Evil, Undone","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg004","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Ferg004_2.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffThere, choice of highway waits us, north or south.\"\nNorthward they rode. \" What be these moving brakes\nBefore us ? Nay, 'tis but a running drove\nOf antler' d stags. Whence come they ? and whence\ncome\nThese darkening flights of fowl above our heads ? \"\n\" These the wild brood of Clane-Milcarna's dens : \"\nReplied the druid. \"It is another gaysh\nFor Tara's King to see them leave their lairs\nAfter mid-day ; and ill will come of it,\"\n\" Omens of evil gather round my path,\nThough thought of evil in my breast is none,\"\nSaid Conary, and heaved a heavy sigh ;\n\" Yet, since I reign by law, and holy men\nCharged with the keeping of the law, declare\nThou shalt not so-and-so, at such a time\nDo or leave undone, it beseems not me\nTo question for what end the law is so :\nThough, were it but a human ordinance,\n'Twere, haply, counted childish : but, go to,\nI own another violated gaysh ;\nI pray forgiveness of offended Heaven ;\nAnd, since some fierce invading enemy \u2014\nMisguided brothers, that it be not you ! \u2014\nBars our approach to Tara, let us choose\nCualann highroad ; for Cualann-ward there dwells\nOne whom I once befriended ; and I know\nHis home will give me shelter for to-night,\nKnew I aright the way that leads to it.\"\n\" Name of the man, oh King ? \" demanded Cecht\n(Fly ye, foes all, fly ye before the face\nOf Cecht, the battle-sidesman of the King ! ) \n","Type":"Text"}}]