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1. Winter Tales - Sad Tales (continued)

   

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   tree trunk or cut turf in the bog and you kept the fire of the nation burning without a tax in money on every cheering flame.
   Beside the woodfire or the turf what were the right tales to tell?
   Pray you sit by us and tell us a tale
   Merry or sad shall it be
   As merry as you will
   A sad tales best for winter
   I have one of the spirits and gobbins. There was a man dwelt by the church-yard that is Liam Shakespeare judge-ment that a winter's tale should be a sad one I suppose that he meant that when you are warm and merry it is time to think of sad things and endure them.

   

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   Another poet had a different notion he wanted cheery stories when the wind was howling - Folk say, a wizard to a nothern king at Christmas tide such wonderous things did show. That through one window men beheld the Spring. And through another saw the

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rose Agnes Kelly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Fahykeen, Co. Donegal