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There was a "Round," or amphitheatre, for public games, and four British castles; also a great many sepulchral mounds on the hills, the burial-place of chieftains. I supposed that St. Close by, he built this little church, in which he worshipped God and prayed for the people. * "The Church of St. Piran." Published by Van Voorst. + This little building still remains entire, under the sand.
Here then, more than fourteen centuries ago, people called upon God; and when their little sanctuary was overwhelmed with the sand, they removed to the other side of the river, and built themselves another church; but they still continued to bury their dead around and above the oratory and resting-place of St. Piran.
But devil a trace can I see!" "Now, look here," St. Piran said; "the church was there, right enough." "That's a true word," spoke up an old man, "for I mind it well. An elegant tower it had, an' a shingle roof." "Spake up, now," said the saint, glaring around; "fwich av ye's gone an' misbestowed me parush church?
Pírán with horror heard this stern command, And hasten'd to the king, and thus addressed him: "What! wouldst thou hurl thy vengeance on a woman, That woman, too, thy daughter? Is it wise, Or natural, thus to sport with human life?
And they hurried off to the cottage, man, woman, and child: for 'twas thirty years at least since the horn had last been sounded. They pushed open the door, and there sat St. Piran in his arm-chair, looking good for another twenty years, but considerably flustered. His cheeks were red, and his fingers clutched the cow-horn nervously.
Some time after this union, Pírán suggested another alliance, for the purpose of strengthening his political interest and power, and this was with Ferangís, the daughter of Afrásiyáb.
Accordingly he was again attacked and secured, and still Afrásiyáb wished to put him to death; but Pílsam, one of his warriors, and the brother of Pírán, induced him to relinquish that diabolical intention, and to convey him back to his own palace.
Piran was a little round man; and in the beginning he dwelt on the north coast of Ireland, in a leafy mill, past which a stream came tumbling down to the sea. After turning the saint's mill-wheel, the stream dived over a fall into the Lough below, and the lul-ul-ur-r-r of the water-wheel and fall was a sleepy music in the saint's ear noon and night.
It was thy good fortune and prosperous star, however, which made me triumph over the enemy." The three travellers then resuming their journey: Through dreary track, and pathless waste, And wood and wild, their way they traced. The return of the defeated Kulbád excited the greatest indignation in the breast of Pírán. "What! three hundred soldiers to fly from the valor of one man!
As soon as he was born, Pírán took measures to prevent his being carried off to Afrásiyáb, and committed him to the care of some peasants on the mountain Kalún. On the same night Afrásiyáb had a dream, in which he received intimation of the birth of Kai-khosráu; and upon this intimation he sent for Pírán to know why his commands had not been complied with.
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