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THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE.
The Child (while she strews the primroses).
No one whose heart is heavy with human tears
Can cross these little cressets of the wood.
Father Hart.
Be not afraid, the Father is with us,
And all the nine angelic hierarchies,
The Holy Martyrs and the Innocents,
The adoring Magi in their coats of mail,
And He who died and rose on the third day,
And Mary with her seven times wounded heart.
[The Child ceases strewing the primroses, and kneels upon the settle beside Maire and puts her arms about her neck.
Cry daughter to the Angels and the Saints.
The Child.
You shall go with me, newly-married bride,
And gaze upon a merrier multitude:
White-armed Nuala and Ardroe the Wise,
Feacra of the hurtling foam, and him
Who is the ruler of the western host,
Finvarra, and their Land of Heart's Desire,
