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Aithnê. Sept '85 Text below from Page 266. "The Dominion of Dreams".

"And the song that he sang was one Ulad himself had wrought, and sang to Aithnê,
and made it hers because she and no other was worthy of the name Heart of Beauty.

"Oh where are thy white hands, Heart of Beauty?
Heart of Beauty!
They are as white foam on the swept sands,
Heart of Beauty,
They are as white swans over dusky lands,
They are as wands, magic wands, thy white hands,
Heart of Beauty,
From the white dawn to the grey dusk,
Heart of Beauty
I hear the unseen waves on unseen strands,
Heart of Beauty,
I see the sun rise and set over shadowed lands,
But never never never thy white hands thy white hands,
Heart of Beauty."

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"I know not what to do, O woman out of the woods," he said." But where shall I find
Bêl the harper, and where shall I find Ulad the dreamer, and where shall I find Aithnê
his dream"?
"You shall hear the harping of Bêl when you speak to the people three days hence at
the Rath of Bandore. And there shall be an echo, after Bêl's playing, which shall tell
him where he may find Ulad. But of Aithnê I can tell you nothing save that she dwells
under the rainbow in the west."
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