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1. A Legend of Dromineer Castle (continued)

   

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   of indistinct tradition. Yours would have been a glorious memory had you lived in those olden times, when the Being in whose bosom were shrined and hallowed gifts of genius, was looked up to with devotional veneration as a God in the disguise of mortality. Though those beautiful and sublime scenes, which start into existence beneath the magic influence of try genius, like palaces that, in fabled story, are said to spring up amid deserts at the talismaniac touch of the Enchanter's wand, come over my spirits all sparkling and bright, like morning sunshine on the ocean, still, after all, my brother, how come it that thy calm and god-like brow is so often clouded with silent sorrow?"
   O'Kennedy would gaze on his brother in a melancholy mood and exclaim:
   "O'Brien the gifts bestowed by nature are always accompanied with some sorrowful counterbalance, and genius at its best is but a bitter boon. Has not the river on which we float its hours of tempest and darkness, though now it ripples and slumbers in the sunshine like a spirit of night and tranquility? Does not the harp that gives the sweetest note of pleasure breathe the saddest tone of sorrow; yields it not the

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