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A dhuine chuirios
an crann
[Bergin, Osborn:
Irish Bardic Poetry, poem 34]
Giolla Brighde Ó
hEodhasa
1 A dhuine
chuirios an crann,
cÃa bhus beó ag
buain a ubhall?
ar bfás don
chráoibh ghégaigh ghil,
ré a fhégoin
dáoibh an deimhin?
2 Gan t’fhuireach
ré a bhláth do bhoing
san lubhghort
uaine áluinn
smuain, a fhir na
ccleath do chor,
mo chreach! ag
sin an sáoghal.
3 D’éis a
aibchighthi as é ad láimh,
an tú chaithfius,
a chompáin,
bláth garrdha na
ngég solus?
tarrla ón ég a
n-amharus.
4 NÃ crÃonna
dhuit, a dhuine.
ga mbà an choille
chumhraidhe,
th’aire ar fhás
na n-abhall lag,
’sgan cás at anam
agad.