Kathleen Mavourneen

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Excerpt from Kathleen Mavourneen: An Australian Tale "Wind-stirred shamrocks that blow By the Shannon's darkening water, Whispering, ever and ever whispering, To Erin's daughter Of a message hid in the tall reeds, In the rustling, green rath-grasses - 'Choose ye, this day of days, Lest out of your life love passes.'" Against the flaring, winter sunset an old crone was bending over a pratee-basket. Farther off a girl turned the brown earth, one bare foot planted firmly on the spade, her green skirt faded and torn, her ragged red kerchief flaming, lifting a little in the wind. As Desmond passed slowly on to the Bridge of the Twelve Arches, the sun began slowly to sink behind the black, looming mass of the mountains of Killaloe. Desmond paused for a moment, and, leaning lazily on the broken stone coping, lit his pipe reflectively, all the artist in him thrilling responsively to the beauty of this corner of old Ireland. Towards the left rose abruptly, towering above the low-lying, ragged bank of clouds, the square tower of St. Finnan's, and where to a little Irish colleen he would say to-night a careless farewell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.