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Ulysses

There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors
and princes of high renown. A pleasant land it is in sooth
of murmuring waters, fishful streams where sport the
gurnard, the plaice, the roach, the halibut, the gibbed

haddock, the grilse, the dab, the brill, the flounder, the
pollock, the mixed coarse fish generally and other denizens
of the aqueous kingdom too numerous to be enumerated.
In the mild breezes of the west and of the east the lofty
trees wave in different directions their firstclass foliage, the
wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted
planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of
the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly
well supplied. Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the
roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs
while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for
example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings,
drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems
and playful insects. And heroes voyage from afar to woo
them, from Eblana to Slievemargy, the peerless princes of
unfettered Munster and of Connacht the just and of
smooth sleek Leinster and of Cruahan’s land and of
Armagh the splendid and of the noble district of Boyle,
princes, the sons of kings.

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