[{"node":{"title":"Ferg006","Collections":"Conary","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Saturday, March 12, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg006","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Prohibitions, Triad, Tara","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg006","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/Ferg006_2.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffSaid Conary. \" I also call to mind\nAmid my prohibitions this is one,\nTo follow three red riders on the way ;\nInjunction idle, were it not divine.\nAfter them, Ferflath ; stay them till we pass.\"\nThen the Hght lad young Ferflath, Conary 's son\nSprang forth at gallop on the red men's track,\nAnd called his message shrilly from behind,\nBut failed to overtake them. He who rode\nLast of the triad sang him back a lay \u2014\n\" Water, oh youth, oh high swift-riding youth,\nOn back, on neck, on shoulder Highly borne.\nWater will quench : fire burn ; and shocks of hair\nAt horrid tidings, upon warriors' heads\nBristle as reeds in water ; water ; ho ! \"\nFerflath returned, and told to Conary\nThe lay the red man sang ; \" and sir,\" he said,\n\" I rode, I think, as seemly as himself.\nAnd know not what he meant : but sure I am\nThese are not men of mankind, as we are.\nBut fairy men and ministers of ill.\"\n\" Now then,\" said Conary, \" let every gaysh\nThat dread Religion with hard-knotting hand\nBinds on the King of Tara, for to-day\nBe broken ! Let them go. They may precede ;\nMay tie their red steeds at the great hall door,\nAnd choose their seats within ; and I, the King,\nMay follow, and accept the traveller's place\nLast to attain the inn. Well, be it so :\nRespect departs with fortune's one-day change\nBut, friends, despond not, you. Though few we be\nIn midst of these marauders (oh, my heart \n","Type":"Text"}}]