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The Storyteller

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Tim of the Tales they call me,     With a welcome heart and hand;     But little they hold my brother     For all his cattle and land.     If I be walking the high road     From Clare that goes to the sea,     A troop of the young run leaping     To gather a story from me.     Tim of the Tales, the folk say,     Is known the world around,     For children by taking his stories     To their homes in foreign ground.     I pity my brother his fortunes,     And how he sits alone,     With the money that keeps his body,     But leaves his heart a stone.     And sometimes do I be feeling     A dream of death in my ear,     And a heaven of children calling,     "Tim of the Tales is here."

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