Alchemisland

Fulco of Ireland served alongside Charlemagne of the flame retardant cloak and raiment

There showing shrewdness, piety and bravery, thereby was he raised

And married raised a family, to this day the name Scoti is conveyed

James of Ireland, who accompanied Odoric of Pordenone from occident to orient

His glorious travels were widely reported, dictated to an author, which Mandeville resorted

To plundering for his own travel offering, often he reports things

Writ wholesale in the former’s codices, the line is easily drawn between

Methinks evincing thievery.

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Of Niall Ó Glacáin more is written, he was like a bitten man before Nehushtan

He feared neither plague nor ague, he entered the gloomy, plague-strewn lazarets

Delivering succour to the wounded, rheumy eyed and agonised with pustules

He wrote treatises of his findings, his repeated trials, he had god’s eyes

Seeing nothing unattainable in what he prized

We have had healers and herbs and hospitals since antient time, since Herne

Rode the furze and the fey were in force still on the earth, when fir bolg

Cursed by hideousness lurked on the igneous fringes of hidden Ireland

Swanful Tuatha Dé Danann poet warriors in pearl-fronted chariots

Prizing hospitality and merriment, literacy, as well as martial command

A spear cast from those practised hands always lands, glandsmashing

Rending and gnashing, one of many raptures enacted on the isle of Éireann

Who knows what placenames conferred thereon by silver haired chieftains

Much has been cheapened, we are not equal to our inheritance

We have gone in sequence from gleaming gold to sad, beaten bronze

Honesty my honour compels and you are terrible, a fire atop Mount Errigal

Which all can see or seek, even the Morrigan, speaking to your daftness ineffable.