Word: hilaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Raftery came upon Hilaria, a small Spanish woman, and he making a poem at the Galway dockside one sun down. The Welshman Daffyd Evans of Claregalway passed like another shadow between Raftery and the sun when Hilaria, who one night sang a song of the harlots of Cadiz, said she was of the Welshman's house. Being blind, Raftery knew more than she sang...
Raftery and Hilaria were married, with a street woman and a beggar to witness; and Raftery spared the Welshman of his dagger when the cringing misshapen scoundrel would have spread the past like a blight over the newly wed couple. They went out upon the open roads to County Mayo; and when she made her confessional, telling of her eagle heart and her childhood's hard usage, Great Raftery laid aside his harp and caught...
...difficult to judge. "The Night by the Sea" is a pleasant trifle and we cannot help liking it. "Dead Leaves" and "The Seer" both have the merit of an intelligible idea, although the former is far better able to express it. It is difficult to find any justification for "Hilaria", with its tortuous rhetoric and unnatural choice of words. Probably "Captive's Prayer" comes as near being real poetry as any of them...
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