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Thread #26326   Message #316447
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
11-Oct-00 - 03:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Frog's Wedding
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Frog's Wedding
The poem by W. B. Yeats noted in Alice's posting above is not entirely original with Yeats. Here is a piece from R. H. Robbins, 'Secular Lyrics', #15, a 14th century fragment from Bodleian MS Rawl. D. 913.]

Ich am of Irlaunde,
ant of the holy londe
of irlande.

Gode sire, pray ich þe,
for of saynte charite,
come ant daunce wyt me
In irlaunde.