THE MINSTREL BOY.
(From Moore’s Melodies)
Translated for the GAEL, by WILLIAM RUSSELL.
Air — “Moreen.”
An cláirseoir óg chuig an chogadh ghluais
Ameasg na m-beodhaibh ná h-iarr é:
Lann 'athar ag an laoch air a thaob na
truaill',
'Sa fhaol-chruit crochta shiar air.
"A tír na n-dán," ar-sa'n curadh-bhárd,
"Ag an saoghal cé go bh-fuil tú seunta,
Aon chloídheamh amháin beidh treun ad
pháirt,
Aon chruit amháin fíoraonta.
Do thuit an dámh, le slabhraidhe námhad
Níor thig a sp'rid do chlaochladh;
A chéis níor ghíog arís go brách,
Do stróic se amach a teuda ;
Agus dubhairt, "ní fhóghnann duit slabh-
raidhe.
A anam an ghrádh 's an ghaisge ghraídhe!
T' abráin do cumadh do shaor 's do shaoi,
Ní chloisfear a n-daor-bhruid a sioll-
aídhe."
Céis, an old name for the Irish harp ;
vide O'Reilly's Supplement.
The word, siollaidhe, in the last line
signifes musical strains; as, tabhair
dhúinn siolla, give us a strain.
ISLAND-EADY.
Translated from the Irish of BRIAN McHUGH,
By MICHAEL CAVANAGH
Air — “Youghal Harbor."
1
In “Island-Eady” my first love's sleeping,
There my young darling l’ve laid to rest ;
And three bereaved ones are with me weeping,
Who nurture drew from her loving breast.
That I'm faint-hearted there's no denying,
My soul is shrouded in sorrow's gloom :
My "light of life!" — in your clay-bed lying —
You're gone from me in your youthful bloom.
2
When but sixteen I my fond bride made you,
No gift more precious could mortal prize ;
By nature gifted — no art to aid you —
You shone, my day-star in azure skies :
Your lips were truthful, dear love, and graceful,
Your neck as swan’s on the limpid wave :
Your white breasts pillowed your babies peaceful,
Oh ! that from Death I my love could save !
3
If I had wed some repulsive creature,
I'd scarcely mourn her loss with tears ,
But she — the peerless in mind and feature —
Whose love I won in her tender years :
Oh, I'd much rather my wife recover,
To milk my cows and to cheer my hearth,
Than George's riches if told twice over,
Could they her place take beneath the earth.
4
If people knew what I suffer thinking
Upon my bright-haired, lost, Sallie Bawn!
Whose liquid love-notes my soul kept drinking,
Through nights of rapture till morning's dawn.
No use in dreaming that I shall meet her —
My household's queen, evermore in life ;
Although my heart's-blood I'd give to greet her —
My treasured darling — my sweet child-wife.
It is said that Dan Manning is what they call a
"turn-coat,“ and after “turning" attempted to re-
move the remains of his father from the Catholic
to a protestant gravevard. If this be a fact Mr
Cleveland has highly complimented his Irish sup-
porters by placing Mr. Manning in the Treasury,
for, of all living animals, there is none so hatefu
to the Irishman as a “turncoat," because there is
none so bitter against Irish National sentiment,
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