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6 But never made a poorer song That you might have a heavier purse, Nor gave loud service to a cause That you might have a troop of friends. You kept the Muses' sterner laws, And unrelenting faced your ends, And therefore earned the right and yet Dowson and Johnson most I praise&mdash; To troop with those the world's forgot, And copy their proud steady gaze.

'The Danish troop was driven out Between the dawn and dusk' she said; 'Although the event was long in doubt, Although the King of Ireland's dead And half the kings, before sundown All was accomplished.'

'When this day Murrough, the King of Ireland's son, Foot after foot was giving way,