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Quotes from Closing lines of his last known poem — Egan O'Rahilly

d. 1726 Ireland

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For the future I cease, Death approaches with little delay,
Since the dragons of Laune and Lane and Lee are destroyed;
I’ll follow the heroes far from the light of day,
The princes my ancestors followed before Christ died.

Closing lines of his last known poem (1729)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Egan O'Rahilly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.