A herdsman met a man who had no mouth,

Nor ears, nor eyes: his face a wall of flesh;

He saw him plainly by the moon.

MAIRE.

[Going over to the little shrine.]

White Mary,

Bring Shemus home out of the wicked woods;

Save Shemus from the wolves; Shemus is daring;

And save him from the demons of the woods,

Who have crept out and wander on the roads,