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He heard not the voices that called from the shore He heard not the rising wind's menacing roar; Home, kindred, and safety he left on that day, And he sped to Hy-Brasail, away, far away!
But Kirwan had never seen it, and whenever he came to the top of the highest cliff, where he often went bird-nesting, he climbed the great mass of granite called The Gregory, and peered out into the west, especially at sunset, in hopes that he would at least catch a glimpse, some happy evening, of the cliffs and meadows of Hy-Brasail. But as yet he had never espied them.
Some islands, it was believed, had been already disenchanted by throwing on them a few sparks of lighted turf; but as Hy-Brasail was too far for this, there were repeated efforts to disenchant it by shooting fiery arrows towards it, though this had not yet been successful.
XIII KIRWAN'S SEARCH FOR HY-BRASAIL The boy Kirwan lay on one of the steep cliffs of the Island of Innismane one of the islands of Arran, formerly called Isles of the Saints. He was looking across the Atlantic for a glimpse of Hy-Brasail.
The first of these is Pizigani's , containing "Ysolae dictae Fortunatae," and the other that of Ortelius , containing "S. Brandain." XIII. HY-BRASAIL "The people of Aran, with characteristic enthusiasm, fancy, that at certain periods, they see Hy-Brasail, elevated far to the west in their watery horizon.
The Hy-Brasail of the Irish is evidently a part of the Atlantis of Plato; who, in his 'Timaeus, says that that island was totally swallowed up by a prodigious earthquake." In Pizigani's map there appear three islands of this name, two off the Azores and one off Ireland.
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