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'No harm shall befall you, said Angus, 'if ye will but shelter under my mantle, the one on the right side and the other on the left, for then will I bring you both forth from this place, and Finn shall know it not. But Dermat would not flee from Finn, yet it was his will that Grania should go with Angus.
When it was told Angus that Grania had sent them to bring the body of Dermat to Rath-Grania, he stayed for some time wrapt in thought. At length he spake these words: 'Let it be told the Princess that I will take with me the body of Dermat to my home, that he may be preserved by my power as though he still lived.
For the second time Fionn set out to fetch the water, but returning he thought of Grania, and let it run upon the ground. Diarmid saw and sighed piteously. 'I swear by my sword, cried Oscar, 'that if this time you bring not that water either you or I, O Fionn, shall leave our body here.
'I pledge my word, said Diarmid, 'that yours is the first door by which I will pass, and he rose into the air on the shafts of his javelins, with a bound as light as a bird's, and went far beyond Fionn and his people, and they knew nothing of it. Then he looked back and shouted that he had got the better of them, and followed after the track of Angus and Grania.
Many would tell you Grania slept under the cromlechs, but I don't believe that, and she a king's daughter. And I don't believe she was handsome either. If she was, why would she have run away? In the old time the people had no envy, and they would be writing down the stories and the songs for one another. But they are too venemous now to do that.
'In truth I dwell here with Grania in the hut that was built by Sharvan the giant. And they looked up, and through an opening in the branches they beheld Dermat kiss Grania three times, for the Princess was in great fear. Then was Finn exceeding wroth, and he bade his men surround the tree, each holding the hand of each so that Dermat might by no means escape.
But Miss Lawless's Grania is there to show how delicate and profound might be their sympathy with the lovely things in Irish Catholicism, and her best poems "The Dirge of the Munster Forest" and "After Aughrim" give a voice to Irish suffering and Irish patriotism which it would be hard to parallel in the Nationalist or rebel literature of recent years.
Yes, he would send "Grania" when he had finished it. To arrive suddenly from England, to cast himself at her feet that might move her. Then, with a sigh, "These are things we dream of," he thought, "but never do. Only in dreams do men set forth in quest of the ideal." He looked up, Evelyn's eyes were fixed on him, and he felt like Bran returning home after his voyage to the wondrous isles.
'We will fight you first, said they. They fought long and well, but Diarmid got the better of them both, and bound them on the spot where they fell. 'You struck valiantly, said Grania to Diarmid, 'but I vow that even if the children of Moirna go not after those berries, I will never rest in my bed till I have eaten them.
Lady Gregory wrote also for the Irish Theater plays that have been acted successfully not only in Ireland but in England and in America. Among her best serious plays are The Gaol Gate , a present-day play, the hero of which dies to save a neighbor, The Rising of the Moon , and Grania . McDonough's Wife is an excellent brief piece with an almost heroic note at the close.
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