From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came … - Lady Gregory

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We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head. ' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.

Lady Gregory

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

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