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Chapter 10  
     
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 A hero still standing,  
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 One of the Holly,
  
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 A cuilleain and mighty King.  
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 Whose name and exploits have fathered a thousand tales  
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 Andmany more of false claims of nobility  
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 to the fair Cormac mac Art  
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 Arthur, of the Oxford lies  
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 Ignored by history as a mythical king  
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 Whilst tales of Merlin, swords and tables is wished into the mind of young from Monomeath’s fraud.  
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 It was Cormac, not Arthur that formed the round table  
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 It was Cormac, not Arthur that held the stone of Destiny,  
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 the Bethel stone, Jacob’s Pillow.  
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 It was Cormac, that held the sword of Solomon, a gift of Jeremiah, as the heirs of the House of Judah.  
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 Not a mythical sword of Excalibur.  
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 It was Cormac mac Art whose standard was the Red Lion on Yellow, the Lion of Judah,  
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 Not some Welsh or Scottish prince.  
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 For he was one of the Holly.  
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 He was a Holly King, no less.  
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 Now condemned to the Fenian Cycle.  
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 To mythical family figures of desperate pedigrees.  
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 To Fionn mac Cumhaill and the fable of the Fianna Éireann.  
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 And to Cormac and all from Munster who followed of the line of Cuileain, is there a note from history?  
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 Even after a succession of Kings of the Holly, who continued to honor his name?  
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 Surely history by the conquered is not blind?  
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 Save for the Holly.  
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 For Cormac remains a captive as with his ancestors.  

 
 
 

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