And who are you that wakens me?

Has one of Maeve's nine brawling sons

Grown tired of his own company?

But let him keep his grave for once

I have to find the sleep I have lost.'

And then at last being wide awake,

'I took you for a brawling ghost,

Say what you please, but from day-break

I'll sleep another century.'

The beggar deaf to all but hope