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51. A dhuine chuireas an crann (or “A fhir...�) $
Length: short (4 qq.)
Certainty: 5
Period:
  1. 17th early
Classes:
  1. religious
Manuscripts:
  1. BL Egerton195 Finghin OScannail19thc
  2. Book of O’Conor Don 1631
  3. RIA354 (23/A/8) S. Mac an tSaoir 1746
Prints:
  1. transl. (IBP no. 34)
Motifs:
  1. brevity of life
  2. agriculture
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Giolla Brighde BOCD, RIA354
Poet Surnames:
  1. O hEoghusa
Meter Vars:
  1. deibhidhe
Poem:

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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,

cía 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 Ní críonna dhuit, a dhuine.

ga mbí an choille chumhraidhe,

th’aire ar fhás na n-abhall lag,

’sgan cás at anam agad.