| Show I The ho n lifo's The Banshee Is 14 a female Cemal fairy attached to ancient j Irish houses houser Ile Her Het province Isto la Is lato to foretell the near of or death or disaster to members of or the mI fi by mournful ys of oC unearthly cadence Ever Every ruling filing houf hou- house f had UM Ith own super r supernatural r natural tura retainer During centuries of In- In an and aad foreign misrule lost titles and states estates by confiscation Calion and aud now their u de descendants lOa may be bo r found In er c every land But through all vicissitudes the Banshee e remans faithful to Ute the auld stock k and has never 1 transferred her to 10 the tho comparatively mushroom mushroom mush- mush room conquerors who supplanted the th original original ori orl- ginal rulers of or the lio soil Boton Ho ton Tm Traveler erOr er OT Or Erins Erin's sea sa sea girt girt Isle hilt two Tv thousand leagues aw AWny A y The gentle gentl spring wind igli dOne d One peaceful night In layvOn 0 On n surf lashed n nor northern them I t The waves water dashed fast fast tut ard d fr lr e. e And cross the m v Salt odors of the sea o 1 i i i iOn J On Enns Enn's Head lead The grey rey old castle I scan n. n J e 0 na Where re In dark asp ages guest F The lor lord of or al aU those la nd l lT f 7 T Time The grim rim old warrior wars prince e ale gd stern yet kind Ton Ten centuries have e pasted pin t d Since his body turned to dust duat v i Oer O'er turret hall haU and k keep The moon shone hon weird and bright And blazed toward th the tho west westA A track o oL at sliver silver light Then Them clouds cloud obscured the moon And Aud night birds screamed Amed and cried The Tho ancient church chuich ch hell boil clanged Across the ebbing tide And the Banshee walled wailed and mourned As s she po pointed to the tho woe woe- For a 1 daughter of ot the race lace Was Wl passing to her rest I The princess princes of her people Lay Las dying far fac from om home Two thousand leagues enguell to westward west Acro Across t the ocean foam roam And the lonely night birds s set earned While the gentle night ht winds sl sighed And the llan h and grieved In n time Ume with m the ebbing Charles Henry Stevenson Ste Salt Sail Lake C Ct t. t Utah V |
