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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry From the Fenian Cycle [1]
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Date: 2023-07-28
translated by Standish Hayes O’Grady
Arran of the many stags
The sea strikes against her shoulder
Island where great companies are fed
And blue spears reddened.
Skittish deer on her peaks,
Lush blackberries on her waving heather
Cool water flows in all her rivers
And mast clusters upon her bronze oaks.
There are greyhounds and beagles there
Blueberries and the dark sloes of the blackthorn
Her dwellings set close against her woods
And scattered deer feed by her oak thickets.
On her rocks grows a red-purple crop
And on all her slopes a faultless grass
Over her shapely crags and shady refuge
Leaping goes on, dappled fawns a -skipping.
Smooth her level ground, and fat the wild swine
Cheerful too, her bright fields
And nuts hang high on her forest hazel boughs;
The long galleys go rowing past her.
When the fair weather comes — the warm season—
Trout lie under her rivers’ brinks
Seagulls wheel, screaming each to each about the tall cliff
Oh, Arran! is delightful at all times.
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