This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisin and St. Patrick.
Oisin relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie [Tir Na Nog]. In the isles, Oisin married the beautiful Sidhe Niamh: together they traveled, feasted, and quested. At last Oisin succumbs to the temptation to return and visit the lands of mortal men: inadvertently slipping from his faerie horse, his body touches the ground and instantly puts on the flesh of a decrepit old man.
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The Wanderings Of Oisin [by William Butler Yeats] [Audiobook]
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