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First Line: Grand lugnaquillia! There we lay at peace
Last Line: Faint in the west the rims of galteemore.


GRAND Lugnaquillia! There we lay at peace,
Cooled by the summer wind, and gazed adown
To left and right athwart the rolling hills
To the blue sea and round the cultured plains
Basking to westward in the midday beam.
For many a mile the tawny mountains heaved
In rough confusion. Here amid the heaths
A brown dull tarn reflected the heaven's blue,
Or the slow-moving shadow of a cloud
Darkened a cliff or valley. Northward far
Slieve-Cullinn, dwindled to an arrowy point,
Lifted his rosy peak beyond grey Djouce,
That in a cleft amid the summer woods
Showed, nestling, Luggala; and near us ran
The Avonbeg by Fananierin's base
Away to mingle with bright Avonmore,
And low amid Ovoca's wooded vale
We traced the wedded waters to the sea;
Then, turning, watched beneath in wide Imahl
Far-winding Slaney glittering in the noon,
And fashioned for our fancies in the haze
Faint in the west the rims of Galteemore.





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