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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>Mí Nodlag, 1898</date><idno>IG09-10539</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span><pb n="286"/></span>
<lb n="1"/><span>AN HISTORICAL RELIC.</span></p>
<lb n="2"/>
<lb n="3"/><p><span>Litir Sheón Néilson chun a mhná.</span></p>
<lb n="4"/>
<lb n="5"/><p><span>1.</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>Tabhair mo bheannacht go Dún Dalc,</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>A fhir do rachas go tír Ó Néill,</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>Tabhair mo bheannacht fós</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>Do chineadh mo bhean is dó féin.</span></p>
<lb n="10"/>
<lb n="11"/><p><span>II.</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>Abair leis tá me slán,</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>Marget Caisiol grádh mo hear,</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>Eision tall is mise bhos,</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>Deir mo chroidhe bocht, “Alas!”</span></p>
<lb n="16"/>
<lb n="17"/><p><span>III.</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>B'éigin damsa fágail mo bhean,</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>'S gan gabhail mo chead leis,</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>No fuireach d'éis O Néill as tír</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>Och a Criosd is bocht sin.</span></p>
<lb n="22"/>
<lb n="23"/><p><span>IV.</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>Deir móran a nDun Dalc,</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>Gur leamh nach rinne me fill,</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>dá ma leósan Uí Néill</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>Dar by my faith thucad siad linn.</span></p>
<lb n="28"/>
<lb n="29"/><p><span>V.</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>Acht tá eagla mór ar mise féin,</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>Gidh fearr Ui Néill no gach nídh,</span>
<lb n="32"/><span>Gur peacadh mortal do rinne mé,</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>Gruaim do cur ar suil mo mhnaoi.</span></p>
<lb n="34"/>
<lb n="35"/><p><span>VI. </span>
<lb n="36"/><span>Mur do smuainim....bocht</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>Is air gach och do ní sé,</span>
<lb n="38"/><span>Bi fliuch go bráth air mo shúil,</span>
<lb n="39"/><span>Ach an uair do chím Ui Néill.</span></p>
<lb n="40"/>
<lb n="41"/><p><span>VII.</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>Mar do smuainim ar Richard Óg</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>Sginnidh octar deór anuas;</span>
<lb n="44"/><span>Mar chím ar báll Uí Néill,</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>Beirid mo chroidhe léim suas.</span></p>
<lb n="46"/>
<lb n="47"/><p><span>VIII.</span>
<lb n="48"/><span>Do gheibh mise Ui Néill</span>
<lb n="49"/><span>Mass ané agus Mass aniogh,</span>
<lb n="50"/><span>'Sni aibeoradh ministeir gallta liom,</span>
<lb n="51"/><span>“Richard Nelson, come to Church.”</span></p>
<lb n="52"/>
<lb n="53"/><p><span>IX.</span>
<lb n="54"/><span>Bi mise is mo dís cú</span>
<lb n="55"/><span>Ag cur lúb air cúl an fox,</span>
<lb n="56"/><span>Ar muin each le cois Ó Néill</span>
<lb n="57"/><span>ag éisdeacht le géim na Dogs.</span></p>
<lb n="58"/>
<lb n="59"/><p><span>X.</span>
<lb n="60"/><span>'S trúagh nach bhfuil Marréud Óg</span>
<lb n="61"/><span>Farrum anois ag ól deoch,</span>
<lb n="62"/><span>Budh happy mise mur atáim,</span>
<lb n="63"/><span>'S ní déanainn go bráth, “och!”</span></p>
<lb n="64"/>
<lb n="65"/><p><span>XI.</span>
<lb n="66"/><span>Is trúagh gan a Sradbaile bfos</span>
<lb n="67"/><span>'Náit Lovain ann so muith</span>
<lb n="68"/><span>Is clann Caisil ar an tsráid</span>
<lb n="69"/><span>'Náit na fear labhras Dutch.</span></p>
<lb n="70"/>
<lb n="71"/><p><span>XII.</span>
<lb n="72"/><span>Is truagh nach é Margréd Óg,</span>
<lb n="73"/><span>Do bhí na good-wife san toigh so 'réir,</span>
<lb n="74"/><span>'S truagh nach í Richard Óg</span>
<lb n="75"/><span>Do tig le deoch ar bórd Ui Néill.</span></p>
<lb n="76"/>
<lb n="77"/><p><span>XIII.</span>
<lb n="78"/><span>'S truagh liom, na fágham bás,</span>
<lb n="79"/><span>Ar son mo mna is ar son mo chlann,</span>
<lb n="80"/><span>Is go tréigfinn féin a bhfuil a bhfos</span>
<lb n="81"/><span>Ar son o Néill sa bhfuil thall.</span></p>
<lb n="82"/>
<lb n="83"/><p><span>XIV.</span>
<lb n="84"/><span>Tugthar chugam deoch don fíon</span>
<lb n="85"/><span>Is piopa do tum bac maith,</span>
<lb n="86"/><span>Ni ní gruaim feasda ar mo shúil;</span>
<lb n="87"/><span>Tabhair mo beannacht go Dun Dalc.</span></p>
<lb n="88"/>
<lb n="89"/><p><span>An t-Abhran.</span></p>
<lb n="90"/>
<lb n="91"/><p><span>Beir mo ghiolla mo litir go hÉirinn siar,</span>
<lb n="92"/><span>agus aithris do sisi ga bhfuil mise le brón na</span>
<lb n="93"/><span>dhiaigh</span>
<lb n="94"/><span>Beir uaim hicidh go bhfuil mise slán sdar</span>
<lb n="95"/><span>fíadh</span>
<lb n="96"/><span>'S nach bhfuil ann sa cruinne aon duine is</span>
<lb n="97"/><span>fearr no Niall.</span></p>
<lb n="98"/>
<lb n="99"/><p><span>From a MS. in the Royal Library, Copenhagen(No.</span>
<lb n="100"/><span>173, nye Kongelige Samling). On page 55 occurs the</span>
<lb n="101"/><span>note:—</span></p>
<lb n="102"/>
<lb n="103"/><p><span>Iar na ghraifneadh re Muiris ó Gorman</span>
<lb n="104"/><span>Do chum úsaide Phádruicc h-Choncheanuinn agus ar na</span>
<lb n="105"/><span>Chriochnughadh an .x. lá do December aois an</span>
<lb n="106"/><span>Tigearna an tan sin M. D. cc. lx. ííí.</span></p>
<lb n="107"/>
<lb n="108"/><p><span>The MS. contains Fenian ballads and a number of</span>
<lb n="109"/><span>later poems.</span></p>
<lb n="110"/>
<lb n="111"/><p><span>W.A. CRAIGIE.</span></p>
<lb n="112"/>
<lb n="113"/><p/></div></body></text></TEI>
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