{"id":1085,"date":"2012-01-09T22:57:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:06:06","slug":"maedb-desires-a-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/maedb-desires-a-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Maedb Desires A Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;M\u00e9abh Desires a Bull&quot; - The T\u00e1in - an Irish legend retold by Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_086Ihw3hrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All I have, has my husband, and a lot has he<br \/>\nAs have I, but yet my husband has more than me<br \/>\nA bull, a prize bull, like none to be seen<br \/>\nIn my herd, it was heard, it once had been<br \/>\nBut it fled, or was led, to my husbands herd<br \/>\nSo I must, and I will, and let it be heard<br \/>\nHave a bull, have the bull, of equal strength and of worth<br \/>\nIn Ulster, in Cooley, in rage hooves the dirt<br \/>\nBy the Gods, and by force, by the roads we set out<br \/>\nTill I greet in my fields Cooley&#8217;s bull by mouth.<\/p>\n<address>Thanks to Carmel Diviney for the reading on the video&#8230; 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