melodiotis

Updated: May 7, 2025

The sun is up, and of coorse the moon is down, and the glitter of the light, the sparkling of the dew, the canticles of the birds, and the melodiotis cowing of the crows in Squire Grimshaw's rookery " "Why, Denis, is it this parish you'll have?"

William Carleton - Going to Maynooth : Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three