r without becoming angry or dejected. Her face wasfresh as a spring morning ; her voice more cheerful than thecuckoo calling from the branch that is highest in the hedge ;and her form swayed like a reed and flowed like a river, sothat each person thought she would surely flow to him. Men who had… … I THE BIRTH OF BRAN 95 downcast because they could not hope to marry her, whilethe bachelors of the Fianna stared at each other with truculent,bloodshot eyes, and then they gazed on Tuiren so gentlythat she may have imagined she was being beamed on bythe mild eyes of the dawn. It was to an Ulster…
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