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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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