The Poem-Book of the Gael

1

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to the midst

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seven days

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number of the

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them

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host of the n

the grade

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ardoned

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hyself, thou hast

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go hence

do not be

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upon him, (though)

evil's countena

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his refusal to obey the command of God that he should worship Adam. This command he refused, because he, as the first-created, felt it unworthy of him to adore Adam, the youngest-born of created things. He

in his body direct to heaven, without

it. "s

; L. B. has áitte aille ocus slanti cen galar,

altadh, "a border" (O'R); L. B. has

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ossibly "

therings" or

every quarter" (

on, the mention of canonical hours is a quain

o Adam"; but the reading above se

changed thy complexio

difficult to the

has been changed by he