Scoil: Kilkea, Mageney (uimhir rolla 9123)

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1. The Wizard Earl - A Legend of Kilkea Castle

   

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   In gentle life and high degree
   And beauty could avail
   To shield from ill, it were not mine
   To tell so sad a tale.

   
   If knightly valour, noble birth
   Misfortune could repel,
   Or wisdom save, it were not mine
   So sad a tale to tell.

   
   Ten mighty Earls from sire to son
   Of Gerald's noble name
   Maintained their own, or fought for more,
   Or merely fought for fame.

   
   But he the next contended hard,
   With fierce resolve and stern,
   To wrest from Powers below their power
   And all their wisdom learn

   
   Till so for ways of witchery,
   And arts of darkness famed
   In all the land, that he at last
   "The Wizard Earl" was named.

   
   And oft and oft was he besought
   By his lady good and true,
   To show her all his power, and he
   Transformed within her view.

   
   But ever he forewarned her
   That if her gentle heart
   Gave any sign of fear, he must
   From her for ever part;

   
   Till overpressed by loving words
   He set her trials three,
   That if she gave no sign of fear
   He would transforme'd be.

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