Note 29 — Chapter II · TALES ILLUSTRATIVE OF FAIRY SUPERSTITION.
Reading edition
“Is glas do leanamh.” “Is glas am fiar ’s fàsaidh e.” “Is trom do leanamh.” “Is trom gach torrach.” “Is eutrom do leanamh.” “Is eutrom gach saoghaltach sona.”
“Is glas an duilleach ’s glas am feur, ’S glas an tuadh am bheil a chas, ’S chaneil ni thig roimh thalamh, Nach eil gnè ghlaise na aoraibh.”
The first two lines of this quatrain occur also in a song on the deceitfulness of women, by a young man, whose first love had forsaken him. She “killed him with a stony stare,” and merely asked, “whence comes the sallow stripling?” (“Co ar tha’n corra-ghille glas?”)