rendered from a Gaelic poem in Alexander Carmichael's "Carmina
Gadelica," and that, finally, "Wild Wine of Nature" is a pretty close
English version of a poem hardly to have been expected from that far
from teetotal Scotch Gaelic Bard, Duncan Ban McIntyre.

ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES

RED BRANCH HOUSE
LAURISTON ROAD, WIMBLEDON
July 11, 1917


FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote A: From "The Ancient Poetry of Ireland," by Professor Kuno
Meyer, to whose beautiful prose translations from Irish verse in that
volume, and in his "Hail, Brigit!" I am greatly indebted.]




CONTENTS


I. IRISH POEMS

THE ISLE OF THE HAPPY
THE WISDOM OF KING CORMAC
IRISH TRIADS