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Chapter 2  
     
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 Born of earth,  
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 we shall return.  
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 This is the binding of life  
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 From which none can escape.  
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 High or low, are all dust.  
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 Ages past, Great kings do battle.  
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 The king of oak, of sun.  
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 The king of the night, of the Holly.  
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 Which then is stronger?  
10.
 In the king of night we did see our birth.  
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 When our bellies were full, our loins warm.  
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 The king of night did watch over us.  
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 He blanketed the ground, he gave us life.  
14.
 The king of the bright day was jealous of his brother.  
15.
 He did call out to him  
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 to the sun and the king moon,  
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 Once it was so.  
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 This Isle, sacred named by all the ancients,  
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 From times remotest in the womb of the gods.  
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 As Ireland today, as Éire to the Irish.  
21.
 As Hibernia to the Romans,  
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 As Hibiru, to the ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians  
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 And as Ibbi-Éri to the ancients Akkadians, Sumerians and first tribes of Civilization.  
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 This Isle which rises over the waves of ocean  
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 Of a people journeyed far and wide.  
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 No cowardly word, no thieving hand  
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 Can blight one spoken truth  
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 Where Once great kings stood proud  
29.
 Now only weeds and meadow.  
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 Come the redemption Of all that is spirit.  
31.
 More than memory,  
32.
 More than fable  
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 A compact, a covenant was holly  
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 With earth, with fire with water, with spirit  
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 Is not easily broken by death  
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 The memory of the land outlives  
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 The ignorance of sleepy children  
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 Knowing not from whence they came  
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 Nor who they really are.  

 
 
 

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