MAUNSEL & COMPANY, LTD.,
96 MIDDLE ABBEY ST., DUBLIN.
1911.

Printed by Maunsel & Co., Ltd., Dublin.

CONTENTS

Page
[In the Mountains]1
[The Wander-Lust]2
[The Dark Woman]2
[By Lochros Beag]3
[Coaching by the Stars]3
[A Rainbow]3
[Change]4
[Prophet’s Food]4
[The Transient]5
[Women and Hares]5
[The Smell of the Town]5
[Glengesh]5
[Clog-Seed]6
[Herbs and Flowers]6
[A Young Girl]7
[The General Light and Dark]7
[Soul and Body]8
[A Man on Shelty-Back]9
[The Fairies]9
[Stranorlar Station]9
[Stones]10
[The Strand-Bird]10
[Space]10
[Rabbits and Cats]11
[The Glas Gaibhlinn]11
[A House in the Road’s Mouth]11
[The Quest]12
[Muckish]12
[The May-Fire]12
[Bloody Foreland]13
[Twilight and Silence]13
[The Poor Herd]14
[A Mountain Tramp]14
[The Festival of Death]19
[In Glen-Columcille]19
[The Brink of Water]20
[A Dark Morning]21
[The Swallow-Mark]21
[Women Beetling Clothes]21
[The Sea]22
[A Ballad-Singer]22
[Sunlight]24
[Turf-Cutting]24
[His Old Mother]25
[A Day of Wind and Light, Blown Rain]25
[Lying and Walking]26
[Glen-Columcille to Carrick]26
[Ora et Labora]29
[Two Things that won’t go Grey]29
[Rundal]29
[Púca-Piles]30
[The Rosses]30
[A Country Funeral]30
[Youth and Age]31
[Summer Dusk]32
[A Note]32
[The Peasant in Literature]32
[An Insleep]33
[Water and Slán-Lus]33
[By Lochros Mór]33
[Rival Fiddlers]34
[Nature]35
[Sunday under Slieve League]35
[The Night he was Born]36
[The Lusmór]37
[Derry People]37
[A Clock]38
[Carrick Glen]38
[A Shuiler]39
[Turkeys in the Trees]39
[A Party of Tinkers]39
[Teelin, Bunglass, and Slieve League]40
[The Shooting Star]45
[Sunday on the Road between Carrick and Glengesh]45
[A Roany Bush]46
[August Evening]46
[Near Inver]47
[All Subtle, Secret Things]47
[A Madman]47
[Laguna]48
[Near Letterkenny]48
[Shan Mac Ananty]48
[A Poor Cabin]51
[The Flax-Stone]51
[After Sunset]52
[The Darkness and the Tide]53
[Errigal]54
[The Sore Foot]54
[Asherancally]54
[Orange Gallases]55
[The Human Voice]55
[Loch Aluinn]56
[The Open Road]56

DRAWINGS

[The Wall of Slieve League]Frontispiece
[Clady River, near Gweedore]Facing Page2
[Pass of Glengesh]„6
[Lochros Beag]„8
[Muckish, with a ‘Cap’ on]„12
[On the Road to Doon Well]„16
[Near Alton Loch]„20
[A Street in Ardara]„22
[Falling Water]„26
[Bog and Sky]„30
[Mountainy Folk]„34
[A Wayfarer]„38
[The Horn]„42
[A Clachan of Houses]„48
[A Gap between the Hills]„50
[Loch Nacung—Moonrise]„54

MEARING STONES

[IN THE MOUNTAINS]

“In the mountains,” says Nietzsche, “the shortest way is from summit to summit.” That is the way I covered Donegal. Instead of descending into the valleys (a tedious and destroying process at all times), I crossed, like the king of the fairies, on a bridge of wonder:

With a bridge of white mist