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<text><body><div><p><span>ANECDOTA FROM IRISH MSS.</span></p>
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<lb n="2"/><p><span>MS. Laud 615, p. 55</span></p>
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<lb n="4"/><p><span>Colum Cille cecinit.</span></p>
<lb n="5"/>
<lb n="6"/><p><span>Sgíth mo chrob ón sgríbhinn,</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>ní dígainn mo ghlés gérall,</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>sgéithidh mo phenn gulban-caolta</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>digh daolta do dub glé[gorm].</span></p>
<lb n="10"/>
<lb n="11"/><p><span>Bruinnidh sruaim n-ecna n-Dé fhinn</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>as mo láim degduinn desmais,</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>doirtidh a digh for duillin</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>do dub in chuilinn chnsglais.</span></p>
<lb n="15"/>
<lb n="16"/><p><span>Sínidh mo phenn beg braonach</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>tar aonach lebar lígoll,</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>gan sgor fri selba segann,</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>dian sgíth mo chrobh ó sgríbhunn.</span></p>
<lb n="20"/>
<lb n="21"/><p><span>TRANSLATION.</span></p>
<lb n="22"/>
<lb n="23"/><p><span>My hand is weary of writing,</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>My sharp, big tool is not steady,</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>My slender-beaked pen juts forth</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>A black draught of shining dark-blue</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>ink.</span></p>
<lb n="28"/>
<lb n="29"/><p><span>A stream of the wisdom of blessed God</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>springs</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>From my fair-brown shapely hand,</span>
<lb n="32"/><span>On the page it squirts its draught</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>Of ink of the green-skinned holly.</span></p>
<lb n="34"/>
<lb n="35"/><p><span>My little dripping pen stretches</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>Across the plain of great shining books,</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>Without ceasing for the wealth of the</span>
<lb n="38"/><span>great —</span>
<lb n="39"/><span>Whence my hand is weary of writing.</span></p>
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<lb n="41"/><p><span>KUNO MEYER.</span></p>
<lb n="42"/>
<lb n="43"/><p><span>15th June, 1897.</span></p>
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<lb n="45"/><p/></div></body></text></TEI>
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