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Chapter 8  
     
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 Be sure dear friends, a terrible tale it is  
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 Of faeries and goblins  
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 From the minds of corrupted men  
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 That broke the sacred oath of prose  
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 Trampling wisdom into dirt  
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 To feed us swill and tricky words  
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 Is not then Lebor Gabala Erenn a treasure redeemed?  
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 One need no more than Feinius Farsaid as witness  
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 A rotten slur, an anagram of jest  
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 If it be true then this wandering lad indeed is great.  
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 Midst the patriarchs of destiny,  
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 our most holy prophets  
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 Yet this name, sticks like a bloody thorn  
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 Infecting all and supporting none  
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 So no tale can be said as true  
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 But fancy prose of wishful men  
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 Fein, himself  
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 Ius, disposed of  
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 Far, wind  
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 Said, use(fullness)  
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 Disposed of himself, in the use of wind  
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 An arrogant speech  
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 An arrogant claim.  
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 There it is, within the Lebor Gabala Erenn  
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 A Christian slur on all irish history  
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 For whatever name was once in truth,  
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 so offended the assassins pen it did elicit an insult of history.  
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 If Adam be there, If Noah be there,  
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 then only one name to which the ancients claim heritage would so inflame such a name?  
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 It is Abraham, AB-RA-MU the Patriarch of Ebla  
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 To whom all Christians, Jews and Muslims alike  
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 Praise as father of one religion and favoured prophet of God.  
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 So Gaedel Glas and other fictions no longer hold  
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 To the real name and story of old.  
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 But the Christian curse of fancy names lives on  
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 To render inert all before the time of Patrick.  
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 As superstitution and fable.  

 
 
 

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