A Celtic Psaltery
Graves, Alfred Perceval, 1846-1931
English
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A CELTIC PSALTERY
BEING MAINLY RENDERINGS IN
ENGLISH VERSE FROM
IRISH & WELSH
POETRY
BY
ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES
1917
The F. A. Stokes Company
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New York
Published in England
by
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
68 Haymarket, London
DEDICATION
TO THE
RIGHT HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
This Psalteryof Celtic Songs
To you by bounden rightbelongs;
For ere War's thunder round usbroke,
To your content its chord Iwoke,
Where Cymru's Prince in fealtypure
Knelt for his Sire'sInvestiture.
Nor less these lays are yoursbut more,
In memory of the Eisteddfodfloor
You flooded with a choralthrong
That poured God's praise a wholeday long.
But most, O Celtic Seer, toyou
This Song Wreath of our Race isdue,
Since high o'er hatred anddivision,
You have scaled the Peak andseen the Vision
Of Freedom, breaking intobirth
From out an agonisingEarth.
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PREFACE
I have called this volume of verse a Celtic Psaltery because itmainly consists of close and free translations from Irish, ScotchGaelic, and Welsh Poetry of a religious or serious character. Thefirst half of the book is concerned with Irish poems. The firstgroup of these starts with the dawning of Christianity out of Pagan
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