the Island of

        oods h, and her

        c to nurse, h a woman who

        lived in a    of mud and hin

        t the

        rog the cradle, and p

        over ty of the child, and praying

        t t grant him wisdom

        equal to y. there came a knock

        at t up, not a little

        neighbours were

        in the high-King a mile away;

        and t e. ho is

        knog? shin voice

        anshe

        grey he darkness

        of t error she drew

        back t, and a grey-clad woman, of

        a great age, and of a    more than

        ood by the head of

        t

        to take he

        woman, for she

        firelig the grey hawk

        were upon ead of

        t, and the

        one oo ignorant and too full

        of gaiety to know w a dreadful being

        stood ther voice,

        ~ for I am a e of the grey hawk, and I

        the

        great he door

        again, though her fingers could scarce hold

        ts for trembling, and anrey

        less old ther, and

        ead of hair, came in

        and stood by t. In a little, came a

        ter h,

        and ther,

        until t heir immense

        forms. tood a long time in

        perfect silend stillness, for they were

        of the sand

        roubled, but at last otered

        in a loers, I knew him

        far a under

        her spoke:

        Sisters, I knew

        fluttered like a bird under a    of silver

        cords; and took up the

        ers, I knew him because his

        sang like a bird t ten

        ter t they Bang

        toget rog

        th long wrinkled fingers; and

        tender and caressing,

        nohe

        great heir song:

        Out of sig of mind:

        Long have man and woman-kind

        of mood,

        taken away our wen food,

        taken aar stone;

        hunder alone,

        And red s urn to grey,

        Are true till time gutter away.

        , the e

        hing now

        remains but t a drop of our blood be

        mixed into ched

        of a spindle,

        wo

        a drop of blood, grey as the

        mist, fall upon the child; and

        passed out into the

        ot in silene by one;

        and all t opened

        o dance,

        for too ignorant, and ther

        too full of gaiety to knohe

        beings     over a cradle.

        he nurse

        came to o

        t

        in t of t the

        Sher food or evil she knew

        not,    over t night;

        and ts and men of law,

        and s men, and his cook, and his

        c o t and

        gat the cradle, and were as

        noisy as magpies, and t up and

        looked at them.

        the king

        died fig the Bag;

        and ts and the men of law ruled in

        t looked to see

        er himself before

        long, for no one had seen so wise a

        cales of ions

        about the

        making of t her and

        the

        poor. I~vcryt

        for a miracle t began to trouble all

        men; and all women, walked

        of it    ceasing. the

        grey o grohe childs

        them -

        tinually, it needed but a little while and

        this

        been a matter of great moment,

        for miracles tle those

        days, but for an a la

        none who had any blemish of body could

        sit upon throne; and as a grey hawk

        he air which had

        never sat at teo the

        songs of ts in t of the fire,

        it    possible to think of one in whose

        s feathan marred

        and blasted; nor could te

        from tion of t

        grew in    one of unhuman

        blood. Yet all    he

        shey had suffered much

        from foolisheir own disorders,

        and moreover to c

        tacle of his days; and no one had

        any ot t    wisdom

        mighe law, and call Eocha

        of towers, w a

        ind, tn in ead.

        he child was seven years old

        ts and the men of law were called

        toget, and all these

        matters weighe

        c t

        hey had

        told    too hers

        but    them because of a sin -

        mitted by t

        ruth when he began

        to o try round about.

        After mu they decreed a

        new law anding every one upon pain

        of deato mingle by a subtlety of art the

        feato his hair;

        and t men s and slings,

        for as yet t ied, into

        tries round about to gather a suf-

        ficy of feathey decreed also

        t any ruto the child

        so the sea.

        the child grew

        from co boyhood and from

        boyo manhood, and from being

        curious about all things he became busy

        range and subtle ts which

        came to h dis-

        tins bethe

        same and hings

        long . Multitudes came from

        oto sec o ask his

        sel~ but t at the

        frontiers~ w came,

        to he grey hawk

        in teo him

        o make all darkness

        ligs like music;

        but, alas, o their own

        lands

        toe and

        subtle to o live out ty

        days. A number indeed did live differ-

        ently after their new life was

        less excellent the old: some among

        t

        heir

        labour, turo their own lands

        to find hey had loved less lovable

        and ter in ttle, for

        augtle a hair

        divides true; ain,

        in

        peace their own households,

        whe meaning of

        ter and

        toil, for he had

        ser purposes; and numbers

        of they had heard him

        upon all tain

        became like a fire in their

        s, and made all kindly joys and traffic

        bet

        different    all into vague regret.

        he

        on tes about the

        mear of a territory, or about traying

        of cattle, or about ty of blood;

        urn to t him for

        advice; but to be from

        courtesy, for none kers

        were s and

        dreams t filled he

        marcer-marg of armies.

        Far less could any kno

        amid throngs of overing

        ts and dreams, s its

        oude.

        among to look at him

        and to listen to er of a

        little king w way off; and

        when he saw her he loved, for shc was

        beautiful~ range and pale beauty

        u Dana,

        t mot

        t    as t of others, and

        he

        roubled h a

        great o him when

        told her of

        y, and praised her simply and

        frankly as the

        bards; and o give

        le in his

        dreams. Overwness,

        sed, a half refused,

        for so marry some warrior who

        could carry ain in his

        arms. Day by day the king gave her

        gifts; cups h ears of gold and find-

        rinny ant

        lands; clothough

        o her

        less beautiful t cloth woven

        in till she was

        ever between

        yielding and hholding. he laid down

        , and told he

        urn to the world

        and begin the

        kind and mirthful Children of Dana drove

        out the huge and gloomy and misshapen

        People from uhe

        great Moods arc alonc immortal, and the;

        creators of mortal things; and how every

        Mood is a being t o mortal eyes,

        the shape of Fair-brows, who dwells, as a

        salmon, in the Dagda,

        wy; or of Lir,

        wers; or

        of Angus, wo

        birds; or of Len, th, from

        whose furnace break rainbows and fiery

        dehe children of

        ~)ana: and still sill

        believe t a

        beauty so much like wisdom could hide a

        on .

        ~ tall young man in the

        dun who had yellow hair, and was skilled

        in ling and in training of horses;

        and one day whe king walked in

        the foss

        and t, he heard his voice among

        ters

        of t said,    I

        e these

        dingy feato your beautiful hair, and

        all t throne

        may sleep easy o nighe

        low, musical voice he loved answered:

        My    beautiful like yours; and

        no I hers

        I    my , thus, and

        t casts no shadow of

        terror and darkness upon my . then

        t

        ten    uanding

        tful words of s and his

        men of las t he had reasoned

        aude; and he

        called to rembling

        voice. the salley

        bus

        and prayed for pardon, and ooped

        do of the

        urned away

        to a word. he

        strode into the hall of assembly, and

        s and his men

        of la ood upon the dais

        and spoke in a loud, clear voice:    Men

        of law, w

        the laws of Eri ? Men of verse, why did

        you make me sin against the sccrecy

        of wisdom, for law was made by man

        for t he

        gods have made, and no man shall live by

        its lig and the rain

        and t is deadly

        to mortal things. Men of law and men of

        verse, live acc to your kind, and call

        Eocn

        over you, for I set out to find my kindred.

        hem, and

        dre of t one and then

        anothe grey hawk,

        and, tered the rushes

        upon t, and none dared

        to follow him, for his eyes gleamed like

        the birds of prey; and no man

        saw him again or heard his voice. Some

        believed t ernal abode

        among t

        he dark and dreadful god-

        desses, he pools

        in t cellations

        rising aing in te

        mirrors.
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