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THE SALTAIR NA RANN
King who created lustrous heaven,who is not arrogant, not overweening,and the earth, with its multitudinous delights,strong, powerful, stable.
King who didst make the noble brightness,and the darkness, with its gloom;the one, the perfect day,the other, the very perfect night.
King who fashioned the vast deepsout of the primary stuff of the elements,who . . . . . . . .the wondrous formless mass.
King who formed out of it each element,who confirmed them without restriction, a lovely mystery,both tempestuous and serene,both animate and inanimate.
King who hewed, gloriously, with energy,out of the very shapely primal stuff,the heavy, round earth,with foundations, … length and breadth.[1]
King who shaped within no narrow limitsin the circle of the firmamentthe globe, fashionedlike a goodly apple, truly round.
  1. ↑ Comp. the parallel passage in Senchus mòr, Ancient Laws of Ireland, vol. i. intro. p. 26.
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