A Rider Is Coming

All left wondering 

Earth thundering 

Who is coming 

But Cú Chulainn

His chariot running 

Carves great runnels

In runebanded armour

He is the sun king

The span of royal mouth

His circuit decrees

My kingdom all that lies between

My wheels now and where they’re later seen

He carves new routes, cuts roots clean

New mountains find their feet

At the basin of new ravines

Diamond layers of old earth reveals 

All the land his wheels like waves peel back

He paves the highways of his royal demesne 

His banners billow on a windblown plain

Clane to Clare, Cork to spéir, his claim

He reclaims what the Tuatha had downlain

His hair the sun’s straw, lion’s mane

His songthrush craw the old song same

Amergin knew the old song’s name

The song always remains the same

Crow wise his far eyes see far miles, for miles

Island homes of old Fomorians, did glorious battle at Moytura

Line of Partholon

Older than Parthenon 

Or Marathon

Not as old as glyptodon

He is a hound bounding to the sound of master’s mind

How now found brown cow at Cooley, lines

Of armed warriors sworn to Maedbh, swine

A nation of abactors, incredible actors and divine bovines

Divine kingship to bloodlines confined

The Druids and all their kind 

Have fled the world and left mankind

To our own devices, world of vices 

Evil vicegrips us, no second coming 

Save the wild hunt and King Cú Chulainn.

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