...covered with iron," might there be fern seed for unlearning obduracy and for reinstating the enchantment? Hindered characters seldom have mothers in Irish stories,...Irish; a match not a marriage was made when my great grandmother'd said with native genius for disunion, "Although your suitor be perfection, one objection...

...place as kind as it is green, the greenest place I've never seen. Every name is a tune. (1. 2—4) 36 P A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES llhe following 2 poems) The Lamplighter 3 My tea is nearly r (1. 20-22) 37 Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered...

...covered with iron," might there be fern seed for unlearning obduracy and for reinstating the enchantment? Hindered characters seldom have mothers in Irish stories,...match not a marriage was made when my great great grandmother' d said with native genius for disunion, "Although your suitor be perfection, one objection...

...clan lore may mask more immediate family narratives, and generalized cultural explanations such as "it was Irish" afford safe distance from inadmissible...Irish." Outwitting the fairies, befriending the furies, (21-32) It is Irish to close ranks against the not-Irish and to favor the reproduction of sameness...

...enchantment, the new stanza turns in its last four lines (later rearranged as three) to ones of gender: Hindered characters seldom have mothers in Irish stories but they all have grandmothers. (What Are Years, 34) The stanza says nothing of the fathers or grandfathers of characters who are handicapped...