AN GAOḊAL.
479
Translation.
Ireland’s Champions in the English Parliament.
The eagle in his cage may long to fly,
And pine for his high home among the crags;
The wandering bard may yearn for days gone by, —
For bard-like dress, in place of beggar's rags.
But time will tame the eagle's fierce regard,
And hell forget that he was ever free :
And poverty and wrong will chill the bard,
Until his song would shame to beggars be.
Yet hark ! the eagle in his cage has heard
The cry of freedom; look ! the captive sees
The wing of freedom — 'tis a brother bird!
The eagle rends his bonds, and upward flees.
And mark ! the beggar bard has heard a tune
That makes him quick forget mad slavery's might;
And list! his harp throws off its crazy swoon,
And wakes a rebel-song of swords and fight !
Thus, when the eagle of the States arose —
When o'er the sea rang freedom's valiant strain —
Old Ireland roused amid her mighty woes
And almost broke the Saxon’s iron chain.
And does that circling eagle's lofty wing
On Ireland’s champions courage still bestow?
It does — they rend their fetters harrowing,
And rise, at last, like vengeance, on the foe !
L. M. BALDWIN.
BRUAĊLIN, an SEAĊTṀAḊ Lá air Ḟiċead de Seaċt
-ṁí, 1885.
M. J. Lóċáin :—
A Ṡaoi: Táim d' éis sgríoḃaḋ gnáṫuġaḋ Ġaeḋilge —
mar ġeall air niḋ ní raḃ mé a n-dálaiḃ ar g-cumainn. le
trí seaċtṁaine réir. Dá m-baḋ mian leat (agus gan ob¬
air a ḃeiṫ agat air feaḋ tamaill ḃig) deun "dearḃ-léiġ¬
eaḋ do na fearsadaiḃ so; agus béiḋ mé ró ḃuiḋeaċ.
Do ċaraid,
L. M. Ballduine.
Ḃeurfainn duit-si an Bíobla sa ḃ-fuil faoi agus ṫairis,
Go d-tiuḃarfaiḋ Dia dílis ar sáiṫ dúinn le caiṫeaṁ.
A ṁuirnín a's a annsaċt do ṁeall me d-tús m'óige,
Le d' ċluanaiḋeaċt ḃinn ṁeaḃlaċ 's gur ġeall tú mé ṗósaḋ;
Má ṫug mo ċroiḋe gean duit 's dar liom go m-buḋ leor sin,
Is mór atáim a' leun-duḃ 'n uair naċ liom ṫú tráṫnóna.
An cuiṁin leat an oiḋċe ḃí tusa agus mise
Faoi ḃun an ċrann caorṫain a's an oiḋċe ċur cuisneaḋ;
Ní raḃ fosgaḋ ó 'n ngaoṫ againn no dídean ó'n ḃ-fearṫainn,
Aċ mo ċóta ċur fúinn agus do ġúna ċur ṫarainn.
