That's what comes of writing from memory! Just as well that a potential "red herring" was "nipped in the ...gills" (to avoid mixing the metaphor). I do hope that the half-hour you spent with the O'Lochlainn volumes wasn't entirely devoted to the search, but you appreciated anew the little wood-cuts &c with which the volumes are enlivened further. I'll make more use of "IIRC" in future (which I think means "if I recall correctly"); let's hope that's right, at least.   

One thing that struck me about "Larry" upon first reading it, and trying over the air, was the way in which the last line of each verse, instead of being a "tol-de-lol-ol-de-lol-lay" kind of refrain, actually completes the sense of a statement; the kind of playing with established convention which may be seen as a sign of especial poetic talent?