Related Clues:

• Less than half-a-dozen Irish lines
• A few Irish lyrics
• Form of literature that's not willing to omit the beginning
• Metrical text
• Part of a song
• There's very little Irish poetry (just a bit)
• See Irish poetry
• Reluctant to lose a few lines
• He's keen to introduce part of lyric poem
• Line of Hanover's Electors
• Some overseas lines
• Part of hymn
• The prose mostly inappropriate? Bit of poetry called for
• 2:1, e.g., in the Bible
• Sonnet, e.g